The newspaper The country He presented the case of Daniel García, a man who spent 17 in prison for a crime he did not commit and that, when recovering his freedom, he discovered that his house no longer belonged to him, because he was in the hands of the Archdiocese of Tlalnepantla.
Mexico City, May 4 (SinEmbargo) .- An investigation published by the newspaper The country uncovered a real estate dispossession orchestrated by the Archdiocese of Tlalnepantla, State of Mexicoin complicity with notaries and lawyers, which left homeless Daniel Garcíaa man who spent 17 and a half years prisoner for a crime he did not commit.
As indicated by the newspaper in the report signed by the journalist Beatriz Guillén Torresthe house, currently valued at eight million pesos and located at number 7 of Ignacio Allende Street, in the San Miguel sporty sporting country fractionationit was the last good that kept García After losing everything during his unfair imprisonment.
García, a lawyer who was also a councilor and pastry chef, was accused of the alleged murder of the councilor María de los Ángeles Tamés, of the National Action Party (PAN), a crime for which he was arrested in February 2002. He was also charged with charges of fraud, extortion and organized crime.
“In February 2002, he was arrested, entrenched and tortured, in a series of irregularities that would lead to the State Prosecutor’s Office to stop 16 members of his family,” said Guillén Torres in his investigation published on April 26.
When he was released in 2019, he discovered that his house, which he never put on sale, was in the hands of the Archdiocese of Tlalnepantla. A “selling” poster alerted it, and when investigating, he uncovered a fraudulent operation that was created while he was deprived of his freedom.
According to the report of The countrythe dispossession by the Archbishopric of Tlalnepantla was executed by two ways. In one, an “irrevocable special power” was issued in favor of Claudia Jovanna Paredes Ezeta, a 20 -year -old girl who became legal proxies of Garcia and his wife, Magdalena Pérez, about the property.
This document, issued in July 2003, in the notary 27 of the State of Mexico, by Guadalupe Rojas Icaza, with a validity of 50 years, carried the alleged signatures of both, although neither García nor Pérez knew Paredes nor had they authorized such a procedure.
Under the alleged power of the property, Claudia Jovanna sold it to the Archdiocese, which would have offered an initial payment of 500 thousand pesos, and would also have committed to pay another two million later. “In the assignment contract, the Archbishop Ricardo Guizar and his Economomo, the religious Jorge Aguilera Vargas, include representatives in the act,” said Guillén Torres in the report.
The journalist explained that the Archbishopric of Tlalnepantla sought to use the assignment contract to request a declaration of origin before the Ministry of the Interior (Segob), in order to verify that the property would be used as a “house of elderly, sick and retired priests of the Archdiocese of Tlalnepantla.”
However, for the purchase of the house by the Archdiocese to be completed, Daniel was required to ratify the transaction. Thus, during his imprisonment, Garcia received the visit of Juan Manuel Paredes, a man whom he ever claimed to see again and who, accompanied by a notary, tried to press it at that time to sign a sale for 10 thousand pesos. Garcia flatly refused, stating that he had not sold his house, so the purchase of the property by the Archdiocese did not proceed.
The second route, through which the archbishopric managed to seize the property, was given through a usucapion trial, a legal process that allows a person to keep a house when it has taken care of it for at least five years.
The trial in question was filed by the aforementioned Juan Manuel Paredes, who claimed to possess since 1995 “in a peaceful, continuous, public, in good faith form and for a period of more than five years” the property of Daniel García, although the claim of the house did not go to him, but the previous owner, Gustavo Funes, who died in 1996 and, therefore, did not appear in the trial, so Paredes managed to keep the house.
As indicated by The countryit was Judge Alejandro Albarrán who issued a sentence in favor of Paredes, who proceeded to transfer the property of the property to the Archbishopric of Tlalnepantla.
“The connection between José Manuel Paredes and the Church is in writing on April 24 of that same year. The man names two cures, Jorge Aguilera Vargas and José Alejandro Utrera Patlan. Both appear in the notarial power as ministers of worship with the same domicile as Archbishop Ricardo Guizar,” said the author of the investigation.
The journalist added that the two parish priests made the sale of the property on December 12, 2007 in Public Notary 102 of the State of Mexico. The Church paid 1.4 million pesos to Juan Manuel Paredes.
The country He concluded his report with the information on the legal process that Daniel García has undertaken against the Archdiocese of Tlalnepantla to recover his property.
Garcia, the newspaper said, criminally demanded the church for dispossession in 2022, with the intention of the Usucapion trial that allowed Juan Manuel Paredes to keep the property and then ced it to the Archdiocese.
In the report it was also mentioned that the affected person sent a letter in 2024 to the Ministry of the Interior to intervene in the case and the Attorney General’s Office (FGR) was seen.
“The lawyer has also touched the door of the Church and personally delivered a letter to Archbishop Fernández Hurtado telling him what happened. He has not yet received an answer. While Garcia awaits the advances of justice, government or church, Ignacio Allende’s house continues for sale. He is confident that the State will not fail this time again,” the newspaper concluded.
