Interpol has issued a red alert – an international arrest warrant – for locating a former director of the Mexican public oil company, PEMEX, who is suspected of being bribed to favor a subsidiary of the Brazilian construction company Pentecost.
The badge for Carlos Trevinio, director of Pemex from November 2017 to December 2018, was issued at the request of a federal judge. The former director did not appear in September when he was summoned to answer questions related to the charges against him, for composition and gang and for illegal enrichment.
His name was also mentioned by Emilio Losoya, another former Pemex leader, who was remanded in custody in early November for his alleged involvement in the Odebrecht scandal.
According to reports in the Mexican press, Mr. Losogia accused Mr. Trevinios of accepting bribes of 4 million pesos (about 169,250 euros) when he was a Pemex executive to secure a public contract for the construction of a petrochemical plant. Veracruz in Braskem, a subsidiary of Odebrecht, in 2010.
The international arrest warrant is valid in 196 countries and was issued this week, according to federal sources.
Mr Trevino’s lawyers say their client is in the United States. But Mexican authorities believe it may be elsewhere, in Guatemala or Belize.
The Odebrecht scandal swept the political order in several Latin American countries, where investigations were carried out in cooperation with the Brazilian judiciary (Peru, Dominican Republic, Venezuela …).
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