Francisco Javier García Cap de Vaca, governor of Tamaulipas, Faces a process of overflow after the Specialized Unit in Investigation of Operations with Resources of Illicit Origin and Counterfeiting or Alteration of Currency, attached to the Attorney General’s Office (FGR), submitted to the Chamber of Deputies the request for to perform this process.
García Cap de Vaca is accused of a possible commission of the crimes of organized crime, operation of resources of illicit origin and equivalent tax fraud.
What is García Cap de Vaca accused of?
According to this investigation, a few months ago they filed a complaint for illicit enrichment for more than 951 million pesos, and derived from this complaint, the Financial Intelligence Unit (UIF) And the MP integrated the research portfolio and were able to prove that between April and December 2019 financial triangulations were carried out that brought him income of 42 million pesos from a company facade which has no employees, no capital or a history of tax returns, called TC12.
This company would have received the resources in turn from the RC firm, the partners are declared as suspects of operations of illicit origin in the United States.
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However, there is another accusation derived from the investigations carried out with the collaboration of the former director of Pemex, Emilio Lozoya, When the governor of Tamaulipas he was also denounced by the FIU, on the grounds of operations with resources of illicit origin, complaints filed with the anti-corruption prosecution and the Seido of the FGR. Before Seido the governor was denounced in July 2020 and before the anti-corruption prosecution, in January 2021.
Lozoya’s remarks
The sources consulted stated that the latter complaint arose from the investigations initiated by the FIU against 70 officials and ex-officials mentioned by Emilio Lozoya, former director of Petrolis Mexicans, in a writ filed with the FGR in August last year. In this case, the Panistas R are also accusedIcardo Anaya, Ernesto Cordero, Salvador Vega, José Luis Lavalle Maury, Fracisco Dominguez and Francisco García Cap de Vaca, who at that time were senators.
García Cap de Vaca, who is now governor, was a senator, mayor and businessman in Tamaulipas. He was elected president of this state in 2016 for a period spanning until 2022, so the disaffection process appears 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 shares for the public.
He studied a bachelor’s degree in Business Administration and Marketing at Houston Baptist University; in the City of Houston Texas and with this training, he focused on family and personal business administration.
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Orc thing
In 1986, in Texas, García Cap de Vaca was arrested for alleged theft of weapons that a couple was driving in a van, but was released shortly after, so it has denied on several occasions that he has been imprisoned in the US. When he was a candidate for governor, the panista told Ricardo Rocha on Ràdio Fórmula: “It is false of all falsity, so much so that the district prosecutor had to go out publicly to deny the facts, it was an outgoing incident a cinema, the police arrived, a boy wanted to open a van, they caught everyone, it was a thing of huercos “.
There is a photo of this circulating on social media.
In this photo today the Governor of Tamaulipas when he was arrested in Texas for theft of weapons, his brother Senator Cap de Vaca, apologizes for misogynistic messages against a 20-year-old girl, what a beautiful family! this is the political class of Tamaulipas pic.twitter.com/HO0swfcVeP
– Dr. José Oscar Valdés (@drjoseoscarv) September 28, 2018
On his return to Mexico, García Cap de Vaca founded the company Chamoyadas Products, SA de CV, located in a modest estate in Reynosa. His brother, Ismael, who is senator created the company Industrial machinations of Reynosa, SA de CV, conformed in 2006 when Francisco Javier was mayor of Reynosa.
More remarks against the governor of Tamaulipas
On several occasions, who has made the most remarks – in videos or at press conferences – against the governor of Tamaulipas, Francisco García Cap de Vaca, has been the former candidate for the national leadership of Bruna, Alejandro Rojas Díaz Durán, who among other things has pointed it out for “his links to organized crime, huachicoleo, money laundering, tax evasion, wealth taking badly and his real estate assets.”
Some of the allegations that also transpired in different media at the end of 2020 against the governor, were that his close circle of relatives would be involved in various crimes involving resources of illicit origin. He was also accused in the media of alleged illicit enrichment and organized crime.
Among the accusations that have arisen is also the one made by the former head of Pemex, Emilio Lozoya, who allegedly pointed out that he had received bribes to approve the Energy Reform.
Faced with this, the governor stated on August 28, 2020 that his opponents were worried because they knew Tamaulipas was on the right track, “instead of working for the good of the people, solving so many problems What we have now is that one must be denying alleged investigations, clarifying these of a confessed criminal such as Lozoya, “replied the Tamaulipas president at a press conference in Reynosa, in the presence of President Andrés Manuel López Obrador.
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On this occasion he told the president, “you are an example, you lived it in your own flesh with your opponents when they saw that your leadership took national form and your chances of growing increased.”
The conflict of Goan and AMLO
Since López Obrador assumed power as President of Mexico, a series of clashes have taken place on various issues in national politics, with the governors of the Federalist Alliance, to which García Cap de Vaca belongs.
One of the main issues on the table has been the federal government’s strategy to deal with the coronavirus pandemic, as well as energy policy, cuts to states in the federal budget and the disappearance of trusts, among others.
Example of these misunderstandings occurred on November 16, 2020, when the governors of the Federalist alliance they demanded that the federal government prefer to invest in pharaonic works rather than allocate resources to the completion of priority projects in their states. They warned that there will be impacts on education, security and prevention of gender-based violence because resources were removed “without any strategy”.
They questioned that only the start of the Mayan Train, One of the emblematic works planned by the federal government, will cost the same as the priority projects of these entities.
They also demanded that the 2021 Federation Expenditure Budget did not consider resources for schools and that they adapt to the new reality. They noted their concern because resources to invest in security were reduced: equipment, training and benefits for police officers, and accused that 2.6 billion pesos were also cut in programs to prevent gender violence.
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“There is no entity in Mexico that feels safe, insecurity is deep. The members of the Federalist Alliance are concerned about running out of resources to continue investing in equipment, training and better services for the security forces. of our entities.
One of the recent confrontations originated with power outages, which affected 4,700,000 Mexicans. The governors of the Federalist Alliance expressed their concern and stated that only with investment in infrastructure is reliability and security guaranteed, “they generate a concern in the state governments that make up the Federalist Alliance.”
They called on CFE, SENER, CENAGAS and CENACE to work in a coordinated manner to previously socialize, as far as possible, the information with state governments, in order to support with measures implemented from the local level and assist in mitigation. of damages arising from such incidents.
“It is inadmissible that, despite the alerts from days before, no coordinated measures have been taken between the different authorities in the three levels of government and public and private companies to control the impact of the lack of gas availability. they questioned.
They invited the Federal Executive to resume and undertake actions in the field of natural gas infrastructure, such as storage, gas pipelines, among others; as well as reinforcement, modernization and expansion of transmission lines that allow to add to the security of the National Electrical System and to mitigate the risks of shutdowns or load affectations.
AMLO rejects revenge
Still, today the President Andrés Manuel López Obrador He said that in the case of the request for disqualification against the governor of Tamaulipas, Francisco García Cap de Vaca, his government does not persecute anyone, but stated that “we are not a cover for anyone.”
At a morning press conference, the head of the Federal Executive indicated that the instruction that public servants have is that if there is a complaint of corruption they should not “cover up” anyone, whoever they are.
“With the matter of the governor of Tamaulipas, I want to make it clear to him that we are not persecuting anyone, revenge is not my forte.
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