Mexico City, September 15 (EFE) .- Popular Mexican television presenter Ines Gomez Mont, who is charged with organized crime and money laundering and has an arrest warrant against her, allegedly escaped to the United StatesAs reported by local media on Wednesday.
Gómez Mont, who is wanted along with her husband Víctor Álvarez Puga by the Attorney General’s Office (FGR), she seems to have taken refuge in a luxurious mansion she owns in Miami Beach and that it was owned by the American singer Cher, according to the portal Animal Polític.
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Last Friday it was announced that both Gómez Mont and Álvarez Puga were accused of embezzlement (embezzlement), organized crime and operations with resources of illicit origin, amounting to 3 billion pesos (about $ 150 million), So that an arrest warrant was issued against him.
The driver, the businessman and his brother, Alejandro Álvarez Puga, are said to be involved in the use of ghost companies that make it easier for third parties to evade taxes, misappropriate public resources and launder money.
As these crimes are classified as serious, they deserve pre-trial detention, so the Attorney General’s Office (FGR) would be in the process of requesting Interpol to issue two red cards for the search and capture. of Gómez Mont and her husband.
The same Friday, the ex-host shared a post on her Instagram account, in which she has more than 2.3 million followers, where she said that neither she nor her husband had had access to the arrest warrant. or the evidence to justify it.
Therefore, he said that these were only press reports with “partial and maliciously filtered information.”
LEGAL HISTORY
The legal problems of Gómez Mont and her husband are not new.
In 2010, the then Attorney General’s Office (PGR) and the Tax Administration Service (SAT) registered the offices of the office of Alvarez Puga and Associates.
The SAT noted that the accounting firm advised its clients to register their workers as members or co-operatives in order not to pay them the distribution of profits and evade taxes and payments to social insurance.
In 2012, The New York Times reported that a company of the tax and administrative consulting entrepreneur was actually a phantom signature firm.
In 2016, the presenter was accused of earning more than she reported on her tax return and had to pay more than 2.6 million pesos (about $ 130,000).
If found guilty, Gómez Mont, who has 7 children, could face a sentence of at least 20 years in prison.
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