Mexico City /
President Andrés Manuel López Obrador reported that the company Vitol offered $ 30 million to compensate for the damages for the alleged bribes it granted to Pemex officials between 2015 and 2020.
At the morning conference at the Palau Nacional, the president explained that they were not accepted in the first place, but were asked to know first that they received resources and then the intervention of the General Prosecutor’s Office of the Republic was considered (FGR) because delimitation responsibilities.
“Now they say ‘we want to repair the damage in Mexico with that $ 17 million plus another amount, about $ 30 million.’ We care that those who received the bribe tell us. If we don’t know who we can’t accept the alleged repair of the damage, because we would be cover-ups, accomplices. This is what Vitol needs to know. What did I ask Octavio ?: Let the Public Prosecutor’s Office decide “, he stressed.
In addition, López Obrador ordered his work team to make the necessary arrangements with the United States, the country where the alleged bribes were revealed, so that the identity of those involved is known and that they can be charged for the damage they caused.
In turn, the director of Petrolis Mexicans (Pemex), Octavio Romero, said that in case these resources reach the Public Treasury they will be integrated in the Institute to Return to the Stolen Town (Indep).
Romero mentioned that they have not been able to know so far what officials are involved, under the argument that due process would be damaged.
“We enter into talks with them, especially for the contracts we have in force, under the argument that we can not work with a company that recognizes acts of corruption, much less if you do not know who contract and which official refers,” he stressed.
Last year, Vitol agreed to pay the United States about $ 164 million to solve an investigation into alleged acts of corruption by the Swiss firm in Brazil, Ecuador and Mexico, for a sum of up to $ 2 million. dollars.
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