Francisco Javier García Cabeza de Vaca, governor of Tamaulipas, is facing a lawsuit outrage after the Unit specialized in the investigation of operations with resources of illicit origin and of counterfeiting or currency modification, attached to the General Prosecutor’s Office (FGR), presented the request to carry out the mentioned process before the Chamber of Deputies.
García Cabeza de Vaca is accused of a possible crime organized crime, exploitation of illicit resources and similar tax fraud.
Why is García Cabeza de Vaca accused?
According to this investigation, a few months ago they filed a complaint for illicit enrichment with over 951 million pesos and derived from that complaint, the Financial Intelligence Unit (FIU) and the deputy integrated the investigation file and could prove that between April and December 2019 financial triangulations were carried out which reported revenues of 42 million pesos from a front company which has no employees, capital or history of tax returns, called TC12.
This company in turn received resources from RC, whose partners are suspected of operations of illicit origin in the United States.
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However, there is another allegation arising from the investigations carried out in collaboration with the former director of Pemex, Emilio Lozoya, when governor of Tamaulipas It was also denounced by the FIU, involving operations with resources of illicit origin, complaints filed with the anti-corruption prosecutor’s office and SEIDO of the FGR. The governor was reported to SEIDO in July 2020 and to the anti-corruption prosecutor’s office in January 2021.
Lozoya’s signs
The consulted sources stated that this latest complaint resulted from the investigations initiated by the FIU against 70 officials and former officials mentioned by the FIU. Emilio Lozoya, former director of Petróleos Mexicanos, in a brief filed with the FGR in August last year. In this case, PAN R members are also charged.icardo Anaya, Ernesto Cordero, Salvador Vega, José Luis Lavalle Maury, Fracisco Dominguez and Francisco García Cabeza de Vaca, who were senators at the time.
García Cabeza de Vaca, who is now governor, was a senator, mayor and businessman in Tamaulipas. He was elected president of that state in 2016 for a period that extends until 2022, so that the process of illegality occurs in the middle of his administration.
Francisco Javier was born on September 17, 1967 in Reynosa, Tamaulipas, married and the father of 3 daughters of the same age, according to the file that his government distributes to the public.
He studied for a bachelor’s degree in business administration and marketing at Baptist University in Houston; in the city of Houston, Texas, and with this training, he focused on managing family and personal affairs.
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Huercos work
In 1986, in Texas, it was García Cabeza de Vaca arrested for alleged theft of weapons that a couple brought a van but was released shortly after, so they did he has denied on several occasions that he was imprisoned in the United States. When he was running for governor, PAN told Ricardo Rocha on Radio Fórmula: “Any falsehood is false, so much so that the prosecutor had to go out in public to deny the facts, it was an incident that left a cinema, it reached police, a boy wanted to open a van, they grabbed everyone, it was a Huercos work ”.
That’s why there is a photo circulating on social networks.
In this photo, the current governor of Tamaulipas when he was arrested in Texas for gun theft, his brother Senator Cabeza de Vaca, apologizes for misogynistic messages against a 20-year-old girl, what a beautiful family! this is the political class in Tamaulipas pic.twitter.com/HO0swfcVeP
– Dr. José Oscar Valdés (@drjoseoscarv) September 28, 2018
On his return to Mexico, García Cabeza de Vaca founded the company Produced Chamoyadas, SA de CV, which is located on a modest property in Reynosa. His brother, Ismael, who is a senator, created the company Maquinados Industriales de Reynosa, SA de CV, founded in 2006 when Francisco Javier was mayor of Reynosa.
Several charges against Governor Tamaulipas
On several occasions, the one who made the most accusations – in videos or at press conferences – against the governor of Tamaulipas, Francisco García Cabeza de Vaca, was the former candidate for the national leadership of Morena, A hard tackle from Alejandro Rojas to Diaz Durán, who, among other things, pointed it out for “his links to organized crime, huachicoleo, money laundering, tax evasion, unearned wealth and his real estate assets.”
Some of the allegations that also surfaced in various media at the end of 2020 against the governor were that his close circle of family members had been involved in various crimes involving illicit resources. He was also accused in the media of alleged illicit enrichment and organized crime.
Among the accusations that emerged, the one made by the former head of Pemex, Emilio Lozoya, who allegedly said that he had received a bribe to approve the Energy Reform.
In view of this, the governor stated on 28 August 2020 that his opponents were worried because they knew that Tamaulipas was on the right track, “instead of working for the good of the people, solving so many problems we have now, it turns out that that someone says he denies alleged investigations, clarifying the words of a confessed murderer like Lozoya, “President Tamaulipas told a news conference in Reynosa in the presence of President Andrés Manuel López Obrador.
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On that occasion, he told the president: “You are an example, you lived it directly with your opponents when they saw that your leadership has taken national form and your possibilities for growth have increased.”
The conflict between GOAN and AMLO
Since López Obrador took office as president of Mexico, there have been a number of clashes over various issues in national politics with the leaders of the Federalist Alliance, to which García Cabeza de Vaca belongs.
One of the main issues that was put on the table was the federal government’s strategy to deal with the coronavirus pandemic, as well as energy policy, state cuts in the federal budget and the disappearance of trusts, among others.
An example of these disagreements occurred on November 16, 2020, when the rulers Federalist Alliance They asked the federal government to prefer to invest in pharaonic works instead of allocating resources for the completion of priority projects in their states. They warned that there would be effects on education, security and the prevention of gender-based violence, as resources were scrapped “without any strategy”.
They doubted that only the beginning of the Mayan Train, one of the iconic works designed by the federal government, will cost the same as the priority projects of those entities.
They also argued that the 2021 Federation’s spending budget did not take into account resources for schools and that they were adapting to the new reality. They expressed concern that resources for security investments had been reduced: equipment, training and benefits for the police, and accused 2.6 billion pesos of being reduced to violence prevention programs. of gen.
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“There is no entity in Mexico that feels safe, the insecurity is deep. Federalist Alliance members are concerned as we deplete resources to continue investing in better equipment, training and services for the security forces of our entities.
One of the recent clashes was with power outages, which affected 4.7 million Mexicans. The governors of the Federalist Alliance expressed their concern and stated that only by investing in the reliability and security of the infrastructure is guaranteed, “it generates concern in the state governments that make up the Federalist Alliance”.
They convened CFE, SENER, CENAGAS and CENACE to work in a coordinated manner to prioritize, as far as possible, information with state governments, to support with measures implemented at the local level and to contribute to the mitigation of damage results. of these types of incidents.
“It is unacceptable that, even with the alerts of the previous days, no coordinated measures have been taken between the various authorities at the three levels of government and public and private companies to control the impact of gas shortages,” they questioned. .
They called on the Federal Executive to take and take action on natural gas infrastructure, such as storage, gas pipelines, among others; as well as the consolidation, modernization and extension of transmission lines that add to the security of the national electricity system and mitigate the risks of interruption or damage to the load.
AMLO rejects revenge
Despite this, today the president Andrés Manuel López Obrador He assured that in the case of the claim of illegality against the governor of Tamaulipas, Francisco García Cabeza de Vaca, his government does not persecute anyone, but declared that “we are not covering anyone” either.
At a press conference this morning, the head of the federal executive said that the instructions given to civil servants is that if there is a complaint of corruption, they should not “cover” anyone, whoever they may be.
“On the issue of the governor of Tamaulipas, I want to make it clear that we are not persecuting anyone, revenge is not my strong suit.
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