{"id":7978,"date":"2018-01-19T14:01:17","date_gmt":"2018-01-19T11:01:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/anticorr.media\/?p=7978"},"modified":"2018-01-29T11:02:38","modified_gmt":"2018-01-29T08:02:38","slug":"vlasti-meksiki-potrebovali-ekstradicii-obvinennogo-v-korrupcii-gubernatora","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/anticorr.media\/en\/vlasti-meksiki-potrebovali-ekstradicii-obvinennogo-v-korrupcii-gubernatora\/","title":{"rendered":"Mexico Requests Extradition of Former Governor Over Corruption"},"content":{"rendered":"

This material belongs to: teleSUR<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Cesar Duarte Jaquez<\/a>, from the Institutional Revolution Party<\/a>, is the seventh former governor from the party to face corruption charges during the current administration.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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The General Public Prosecutor’s Office in Mexico has announced it is\u00a0preparing an extradition request for former state governor Cesar Duarte Jaquez in connection with 10\u00a0corruption charges at state level and one federal count of\u00a0electoral fraud.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Duarte Jaquez was the governor of the Mexican northern state of Chihuahua<\/a>, the biggest state in Mexico, from 2010 to 2016. He was the local leader of the Institutional Revolution Party (PRI<\/a>), which currently rules the country.<\/p>\n

Duarte Jaquez stands\u00a0accused of forming a “corruption network”\u00a0which helped him to steal more than a billion Mexican pesos (about US$53million), according to the request filed Wednesday.<\/p>\n

The opposition National Action Party (PAN)<\/a> won the state elections in 2016, vowing to\u00a0put\u00a0Duarte Jaquez in jail for corruption, including establishing a bank in his name with public money.<\/p>\n

As soon as Duarte Jaquez’s\u00a0party lost the state elections, he fled the country and was later seen in El Paso<\/a>, Texas<\/a>.\u00a0He is now facing 11 charges with\u00a0three outstanding warrants for his arrest, but the extradition request had\u00a0been on hold since last year.<\/p>\n

Chihuahua Governor\u00a0Javier Corral<\/a>\u00a0has also condemned the federal government for\u00a0protecting Duarte Jaquez, a member of the national ruling party, over\u00a0his role\u00a0in another recently discovered corruption case involving electoral fraud in 2015 in favour of the PRI.<\/p>\n

The situation between the federal and state governments\u00a0has grown\u00a0tense of late, with\u00a0Corral recently declaring\u00a0he had “broken up”\u00a0with the federal administration.<\/p>\n

Since Corral took\u00a0office, several members of Duarte Jaquez’s\u00a0administration have been jailed or face criminal charges, including two officers and the capital’s mayor.<\/p>\n

One, Antonio Tarin<\/a>, avoided jail by\u00a0hiding inside the National Congress<\/a> and\u00a0swearing-in at the lower chamber in place of a representative who had died abruptly.<\/p>\n

In\u00a0Enrique Pe\u00f1a Nieto<\/a>‘s government, six state ex-governors from his PRI party\u00a0and two from PAN have been arrested for crimes including embezzlement, money laundering, abuse of authority, illegal enrichment and involvement with organized crime.<\/p>\n

Governing Secretary\u00a0Alfonso Navarrete<\/a>\u00a0said the three extradition requests\u00a0are meant to “comply with constitutional obligations”\u00a0and not to “calm down”\u00a0Chihuahua Governor Corral, who has called on the people of Chihuahua to protest against impunity.<\/p>\n

Acting Attorney General Alberto Elias<\/a> said his office received 11 criminal accusations against Duarte\u00a0Jaquez in 2017\u00a0and is now processing the extradition requests.<\/p>\n

“This week, we will present three: two for the Chihuahua state Attorney General’s office and one for the federal branch,” Elias told reporters.<\/p>\n

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