Carlos Ahumada, Argentine businessman, ex-husband of former federal official Rosario Robles, was arrested early Friday morning at an airport in Panama.
According to Danilo Iglesias, a Panamanian journalist from Radio Mia, The arrest was made following an international search request from Interpol at the request of the Government of Mexico.
“We have just been confirmed that Carlos Ahumada, an Argentine businessman living in Mexico and naturalized, is detained by Immigration in our country,” he said in an interview with Ciro Gómez Leyva for Radio Formula.
Ahumada obtained a provisional suspension a month ago to avoid arrest in Mexico City.
In August 2019, Carlos Ahumada was arrested in Argentina at the request of the Attorney General’s Office (FGR).
The Argentine Federal Police detained the businessman at the Aeroparque when he was supposedly preparing to leave the country.
His arrest was carried out due to tax fraud that he probably committed against the Public Treasury of Mexico, for the amount of one million 472,236 pesos, for Income Tax (ISR) that he should have known about and it did not.
A few days later, the businessman was released by a judge in that country, who considered the case against him “absurd.”
After his release, the FGR assured that the businessman was still wanted by the Mexican government for the complaint of tax fraud.
Ahumada, who was emotionally involved with Rosario Robles, was one of the authors of the so-called video scandals of 2004, which implicated PRD members and collaborators of the then head of Government, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, in acts of corruption.
These scandals led to René Bejarano, who was serving that year as leader of the PRD bench in the Legislative Assembly of Mexico City, being imprisoned.
Ahumada, after being arrested in Cuba as a result of those events in March 2004, confessed that Carlos Salinas de Gortari, Diego Fernández de Cevallos and the lawyer Juan Collado were behind the idea of disseminating those videos.
