After the publication of the file of Carlos Fernando Marquez Padilla by the government of Andrés Manuel López Obrador, in which personal data of Maria Amparo Casarthe National Institute of Transparency, Access to Information and Protection of Personal Data (Inai) initiated an investigation for the fact.
Maria Amparo Casar She has a degree in Sociology from the National Autonomous University of Mexico, and a PhD in Political Science from the University of Cambridge.
His specialty is the political analysis of Congress, executive-legislative relations, parties, elections, corruption, transparency and accountability.
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She is a professor and researcher at the Center for Economic Research and Teaching (CIDE)
Currently, María Amparo is president of Mexicans against Corruption and Impunityorganization founded by her and the businessman Claudio X. González Guajardo.
She was head of advisors to the Ministry of the Interior with Santiago Creel.
She is the author of various books:
- The dots on the i’s (2024)
- Money under the table (2018)
- Corruption, article that is part of the Book What Now? Mexico before 2018 (2017)
- Anatomy of Corruption (2016)
- The Mexican Political System (2015)
- To Understand the Political Institutions of the Mexican State (2014)
- Reform without Majorities (2014)
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On May 3, in the “morning” of President Andrés Manuel López Obrador, the director of Pemex Octavio Romero Oropeza He assured that María Amparo Casar improperly received more than 31 million pesos for the death of her husband Carlos Fernando Márquez Padilla García.
This is because on October 7, 2004, when he died Marquez Padilla coordinator at Petróleos Mexicanos, his death was considered to have been an accident because he fell from the twelfth floor of building “A” of the Pemex Tower in the Miguel Hidalgo mayor’s office.
Therefore, María Amparo Casar requested Pemex to pay:
- life insurance
- Funeral expenses
- Post-mortem pension in favor of his 2 children, which was given until they turned 25 years old
- Post-mortem pension for María Amparo Casar that amounts to more than 120 thousand pesos per month
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Therefore, when verifying the information, they realized that as Marquez Padilla he committed suicide, he was not entitled to the payment of the pension, and he initiated an investigation against whoever allowed the payment by omitting the expert opinion.
Romero accused Casar and the writer Hector Aguilar Camin to ask the then Mexico City attorney to modify the ruling.
“So that it did not look like suicide, but rather that it looked like an accident so that the payment of both insurance and retirement could proceed, ‘it was resolved that it was suicide,'” he said. Romero Oropeza.
After which, María Amparo Casar came out to defend herself and assured that the López Obrador government is seeking revenge for the information it has disseminated.
When the director of MCCI denied having received the life insurance payment, the Government of Mexico published the untested file of Marquez Padilla which contains documents and personal data of Amparo Casar.
Given this, hundreds of politicians, academics and journalists have spoken out on the matter and the Inai announced an investigation for the alleged violation of the General Law on Protection of Personal Data Held by Obligated Subjects (LGPDPPSO).
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