Carlos Ahumada Kurtzprotagonist of the ‘Videoscandalos’ that marked the government of Andrés Manuel López Obrador during his period at the head of the then federal District, He was arrested this June 7 in Panama.
Around 10:00 a.m. this Friday, the journalist Ciro Gómez Leyva reported through his space in Radio Formula that the Argentine businessman, 60 years old, was detained by Panamanian immigration agents. The fact was confirmed by the communicator Danilo Iglesias, from that country.
The first reports indicate that Ahumada’s capture responds to a location card issued by the International Police (Interpol) at the request of the government of Mexicoso the Mexican authorities have 24 hours to request information.
Gómez Leyva clarified that, in the event that Mexico does not issue any extradition request or does not proceed legally, the businessman will be released immediately.
It should be noted that, during the afternoon of June 6, it was announced that the federal judge María del Carmen Sánchez Cisneros granted a provisional suspension to the arrest warrant issued against Ahumada in October 2019. The mandate is part of the execution folder EJEC-NTE/1621/2028.
However, it was reported that, for said precautionary measure take effectthe entrepreneur must carry out the payment of a guarantee of 79 thousand 500 pesos.
Likewise, derived from the claim for protection that he filed against any arrest warrant issued against him and the resumption of his capturewill have to remain at the disposal of the head of the Fourth District Court of Amparo in Criminal Matters of Mexico City solely for his personal freedom.
Carlos Ahumada is an Argentine businessman and sports leader who has Mexican nationality. His name became known in 2004, after the dissemination of a video in which he was shown bribing public servants. The case is known as ‘Videoscandals‘.
For this reason, he is accused in Mexico of generic construction fraud from the then Federal District from 2000 to 2006; period of time governed by the current president of the Republic, López Obrador.
As a result of this fact, he was arrested in Havana, extradited to Mexico with the help of Interpol and released in 2007. In 2019 he was captured again, now in Buenos Aires, Argentina, but in that case he was released.
The ‘Videoscandalos’ case in Mexico refers to a series of videos revealed in 2004 that showed politicians and officials receiving bribes.
These videos, released by the journalist Víctor Trujillo In their program “El Mañanero”, they unleashed a major political scandal that shocked the country. The recordings mainly involved members of the Party of the Democratic Revolution (PRD) and of Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI)).
Among those involved was Rene Bejaranoa close collaborator of Andrés Manuel López Obrador, who at that time was the Head of Government of the Federal District.
The images showed Bejarano receiving large sums of money from businessman Carlos Ahumada, who was also identified as the author of the bribes. Bejarano was nicknamed “The Lord of Leagues” because of the way he collected money with rubber bands.
