This Wednesday, June 5 the precautionary measure of preventive detention expired against the former governor of Chihuahua, César Duarte Jáquez, who has been hospitalized since last Sunday due to cardiac complications. The end of the preventive detention measure was indicated through a letter issued by the control judge in Chihuahua, Hortensia García Rodríguez, alleging that the maximum of 2 years established in the National Code of Criminal Procedures.
However, the Prosecutor’s Office of the state noted that The detainee continues with the criminal proceedings against him, since there are at least 18 criminal cases against him waiting, and that the change of precautionary measure will not occur until a hearing is held, in which the accused must be present.
During the hearing, his legal representatives hope to ask that the authorities sentence Duarte, or allow him to continue his process in domiciliary custody.
Cesar Duarte He was captured by the United States police on July 8, 2020 in Miami Florida, for extradition purposes to Mexico, which was completed until June 2, 2022. Broadly speaking, the former governor is accused of criminal association and embezzlement for at least 96.6 million pesos, crimes that are considered serious in the country.
In total, Duarte accumulated 21 arrest warrants, of which 20 were obtained by the Chihuahua Prosecutor’s Office and one more by the Prosecutor’s Office Specialized in Electoral Crimes (FEPADE). In total the positions awarded to him are embezzlement, serious embezzlement and electoral crime.
According to authorities, from June 2011 to November 2014, during the defendant’s term, the state of Chihuahua transferred 96 million 685 thousand 253 pesos to two companies: General Regional Livestock Union Northern Division of the State of Chihuahua and Financial Union of the Northern Division. The former Chihuahua governor He served as a majority shareholder in both companies.
“In agreement with various public servants and people outside the public service, he managed to carry out actions that resulted in the diversion of public resources in the amount of more than 96 million Mexican pesos, extracted between the years 2011 and 2014,” he reported in that moment the Attorney General’s Office (FGR) through a statement.
Also, in June 2011, the Ministry of Rural Development agreed to pay Unión Ganadera 582 thousand pesos to purchase equipment necessary for artificial insemination of livestock, without evidence that Unión Ganadera used the money for this purpose.
According to the document that reflects these transfers, on June 20 and 27, 2011, almost the entire amount already mentioned was transferred, from Unión Ganadera, to an account of Pavements and Services.
Subsequently, a series of transfers, including one of 43,844 pesos, were made from the Pavimentos account to a credit card. in the name of Duarte’s wife, Olga Gómez Fong. The same process was done to grant 19 thousand pesos to Victor Maldonado Gachupinranch manager The miracleproperty of the former governor.
Duarte’s arrest by elements of the United States Marshals Service (US Marshals Service) occurred on the same day as the president Andrés Manuel López Obrador met with the then president of the United States, donald trump, in the White House. At the meeting, the then US president supported the Mexican government’s efforts against corruption.
A year before his arrest, the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) had expelled Duarte from its ranks, after he was accused of embezzlement, and it was pointed out that the diverted money had also been to support the political party.
