Criminal judge Freddie Aparicio Perales issued this Tuesday formal prison order against Cuauhtémoc Gutiérrez de la Torre, former leader of the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) in Mexico City, for the crimes of human trafficking and criminal association.
In addition, it requested that the investigation phase of the criminal proceeding against Gutiérrez, who was also his political rights were temporarily suspended.
In a statement, the Mexico City Attorney General’s Office indicated that the social representative of the Office of the Prosecutor for Investigation of Crimes in Trafficking in Persons “was able to establish the probable responsibility” of the person also known as “Garbage Czar“in the commission of various crimes.
Among them, that of attempted human trafficking, in its modality of aggravated sexual exploitation, registered to the detriment of four women; that of human trafficking, in its modality of misleading advertising aggravated, to the detriment of two of the victims, and that of criminal association, to the detriment of society.
The Prosecutor’s Office recalled that according to the criminal case, the now defendant possibly participated in the sexual exploitation of women, who were hired through misleading advertisements in print and electronic media.
As part of the procedures to avoid impunity in cases in which the accused could be involved, in March 2021 the request made to the Financial Intelligence Unit, dependent on the Ministry of Finance and Public Credit, was reported to the freezing of your bank accounts.
Who is the “Garbage Czar”
Gutiérrez de la Torre, born in 1968, studied Law and was linked to the Institutional Revolutionary Party from a young age, for which he became a local deputy in Mexico City and even assumed the leadership of this group in the capital between 2011 and 2014, when he was removed from office after being involved in a alleged prostitution ring in the Executive Committee.
In April 2014, the local station MVS presented an investigation, with direct testimonies, in which it was denounced that PRI personnel were recruiting young people to serve Gutiérrez, paid with party funds, which among their functions included lend you sexual favors.
Gutierrez, heir to an empire forged in the garbage industry, he had at his service, at that time, between 12 and 15 women, as then calculated by the report released by MVS
The investigative work included a journalist who posed as one of the applicants to fill the position and who recorded an engaged conversation.
In October 2018, a federal judge ordered the capital’s Attorney General’s Office to reopen the criminal complaint filed by three women against Gutiérrez for operating a prostitution ring inside the capital’s PRI, and the investigation began a few months later.
In addition, the capital’s Prosecutor’s Office reported in March 2021 that it requested Interpol to issue a red card for the search, location and apprehension of Gutiérrez de la Torre and four other people.
With information from EFE.
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