The collaborating witness of the Attorney General (PGR), Nora Guadalupe Ugartewho has stated against Elba Esther Gordillo, regained his freedom, revealed officers of the federal government.
They indicated that the woman left the federal prison of Morelos after the sixth District Judge of the Federal Criminal Procedure in Mexico City approved the resignation incident promoted by Ugarte.
Nora Guadalupe was accused by the PGR as presumed responsible for the crimes of organized crime and operations with illegal means.
Investigation against Elba began after the Treasury's Financial Intelligence Unit discovered an "unusual operation" for nearly 2 billion pesos reportedly made by Nora Guadalupe in two accounts of the Santander credit institution.
Then they discovered others within the financial system, for an amount of more than 2 billion pesos, income that came from two bank accounts that belonged to the SNTE.
Ugarte acknowledged before the agent of the Federal Government Ministry that he had made millionaire deposits that benefited Gordillo and his daughters.
The PGR would have discovered that Nora Guadalupe made 22 transfers to the US warehouse Neiman Marcus, a chain of luxury department stores, for a total of 27 million 267 thousand pesos (2 million 100 thousand dollars) from March 2009 to January 2012, among others.
On 24 August, the same judge ordered the immediate release of Isaías Gallardo Chávez and José Manuel Díaz Flores, who were accused by the PGR of the crimes of organized crime and operations by means of illegal origin.
The Minister of Justice was of the opinion that the evidence submitted by the PGR against both persons, in the case of money laundering, had been illegally obtained because there was no court order to suspend the accounts and financial movements of the members of SNTE. revised. In addition, there was no complaint from the tax authorities. Although the crime of organized crime is not configured.
According to the PGR's accusation, Elba benefited Esther from 1,978 million pesos, through financial transfers by three people close to her.
The money that the teacher would have washed, said PGR, belonged to the SNTE and used it for the payment of pilots, purchase of houses and reconstructive operations in the United States, bank deposits in Switzerland and in the Principality of Liechtenstein, and for the payment of an American Express credit card.
Three people concentrated most of the above resources, according to the complaint. They are: Nora Guadalupe, Isaías Gallardo Chávez and José Manuel Díaz Flores, "the PGR claimed that not one of them was authorized to use the resources of the union and that they used personal accounts.
On August 7, Miguel Ángel Aguilar López, head of the First Criminal Matters District Court in Mexico City, ordered the release of Elba Esther because the PGR and the Ministry of Finance acted illegally to accuse her of the crimes of organized crime and operations with funds of illegal origin.
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