With money from the people of Mexico, Petróleos Mexicanos even paid the ITAM tuition for Fernanda – now 38 years old – and Carlos Márquez Padilla Casar – now 40 years old –, children of María Amparo Casar Pérez, who in the During Vicente Fox’s six-year term, she served as coordinator of advisors to the then Secretary of the Interior, Santiago Creel Miranda.
At that private university, Carlos and Fernanda Márquez Padilla Casar studied their bachelor’s and master’s degrees, both in economics, at the expense of the nation’s treasury. The monthly payments ranged from 3,000 to 12,000 pesos, although extra payments were also charged – such as one of 900 pesos, so that he could obtain his “legalized certificate” –, according to the invoices that Casar Pérez’s family delivered. to the oil company in exchange for receiving the public resource.
The documents are part of a 372-page file, with which Pemex documented what could constitute an alleged fraud against the Public Treasury for more than 31 million pesos, and that – according to the general director of the oil company, Octavio Romero Oropeza – has already been criminally denounced so that, where appropriate, responsibilities can be established and so that María Amparo Casar can return that money to the nation.
The file not only documents the payments of these tuition fees, but also other transfers of public resources to their bank accounts, such as payments of life pensions that the president of the organization Mexicanos Contra la Corrupción y la Impunidad (MCCI), María Amparo Casar Pérez, collected until last February, the date when Pemex suspended payment and reported the alleged fraud.
This morning at the presidential conference, engineer Octavio Romero Oropeza explained that the legal actions in progress seek to “recover the amounts unduly paid, which are estimated at more than 31 million pesos, as well as assign responsibilities to the public servants involved.”
From the above it is clear that the complaints presented by the legal area of Pemex would be directly demanding that Casar Pérez return that million-dollar amount to the Public Treasury, after considering that an alleged continued fraud against the oil company’s treasury would be taking place, since every month He was allegedly being paid improperly more than 130 thousand pesos of the people’s money.
The general director of Pemex explained that on October 7, 2004, Carlos Fernando Márquez – then coordinator of advisors of the Administration Directorate of Pemex and husband of María Amparo Casar – committed suicide at the company’s facilities (he threw himself from a window on the 12th floor of building A of the Pemex Tower in Mexico City). In that year, the oil company was headed by Raúl Muñoz Leos.
Derived from the death of Márquez, “his spouse María Amparo Casar – who is the boss, director, the head of the institution or I don’t know what it would be called, Mexicans in Favor of Corruption – requested at that time the insurance payment, the aid of funeral expenses, the post-mortem pension, the pension for her children and for herself […] before there was an expert opinion,” explained Romero Oropeza at the presidential conference. At that time, Casar Pérez was coordinator of advisors to the Secretary of the Interior, Santiago Creel Miranda.
After the death of the official, “Pemex managers treated him as an accident, omitting to wait for the expert opinion of the Public Ministry, which finally ruled that it had been a suicide. By the way, this lady along with a Mexican intellectual, Héctor Aguilar Camín, at that time visited the attorney of the Federal District to ask him to modify the ruling, so that ‘suicide’ did not appear, but rather ‘accident’ appeared, so that the payment could proceed. both insurance and retirement. Finally, it was resolved that it was suicide; However, at Pemex the officials omitted this and declared it an accident, and the insurance payment proceeded and the pensions proceeded,” denounced the general director of the oil company.
For this reason, Romero Oropeza stated that in the current administration certified copies were requested from the Attorney General’s Office of Mexico City, and that upon studying them, it was discovered that the expert opinion determined that there would be no criminal action because no one was deprived of life. to Fernando Márquez, but that he took his own life voluntarily.
“Then, upon verifying that this man intentionally deprived himself of his life, the benefits that had been recognized and paid to Mrs. María Amparo Casar were immediately suspended, and the corresponding complaints were made against those who participated.”
For engineer Romero Oropeza “this is an important case because it is a case of corruption led by those who claim to fight corruption, or who leads the Mexicans, they say they are against corruption, in reality they are in favor of corruption.” ”.
In this regard, President Andrés Manuel López Obrador pointed out that his government has faced “that entire campaign by those who managed economic policy during the neoliberal period and oil policy, when they dedicated themselves to looting Mexico and looting Pemex. It’s like the world turned upside down, the corrupt became honest overnight, champions of transparency.”
In the case of María Amparo Casar, “even sadness, but there is also a lot of cynicism. “How am I going to accept a responsibility, a position, to combat corruption, if I am part of corruption?” said the president in reference to the fact that Santiago Creel’s former advisor now heads the organization Mexicans Against Corruption and Impunity. , which businessman Claudio X González Guajardo founded in 2015.
“You need to have courage, and that is the characteristic of conservatives, they are very cretins, very hypocritical. And they are all writers of the Reforma and all against us,” said López Obrador.
For his part, in the Ciro Gómez Leyva program, Casar Pérez confirmed that until last February he was paid that lifetime pension from Pemex, to which – he affirmed – he is entitled, and he called himself a victim of the president’s revenge, because – according to her – MCCI has investigated the government. Likewise, she assured that she has taken legal action so that, with public money, her pension continues to be paid.
