Abel Barajas/ Reform Agency
Friday, February 24, 2023 | 09:13
CDMX.- Rosario Robles will have a new opportunity this Friday to seek the cancellation of her process for the Master Scam case.
At 10:00 a.m., he will appear at the Federal Criminal Justice Center of the South Prison, to a hearing in which a control judge will decide whether or not the crime of improper exercise of public service has been repealed, for the that is processed.
The procedure was scheduled by order of the Ninth Criminal Collegiate Court in Mexico City, which in January granted an injunction to debate this argument raised by the former Secretary of State’s defense.
For a couple of years, the former head of Sedatu and Sedesol has litigated this approach in court, with the aim of having the processing of its criminal proceedings cancelled.
His last attempt was at a hearing on February 4 of last year, when the control judge Ganther Alejandro Villar Ceballos refused to cancel the process based on said argument.
Robles litigated against that ruling and it was with the protection granted by the collegiate that he managed to order a new debate hearing, since in the one a year ago the judge did not analyze or respond to his entire approach.
The reasoning with which Robles intends to cancel his process is that the criminal conduct attributed to him is a breach of the Federal Budget and Fiscal Responsibility Law and not a crime.
And it justifies it by the fact that the second transitory article of this Law, published in 2006, says that all the provisions that oppose its guidelines will be repealed and, precisely, its article 114 indicates the crime attributed to Robles.
In the amparo that he filed against the adverse ruling of February 2022, Judge Augusto Octavio Mejía Ojeda refused to agree with the former official because, in his opinion, the criminal law is not subordinated to the budget law.
In this process, Robles is accused of having ignored the deviations of more than 5 thousand 73 million 350 thousand 846 pesos committed by his subordinates in Sedatu and Sedesol, in the case of the Master Scam.
The Attorney General’s Office has already requested that she be sentenced to 21 years in prison for this accusation.
The former Secretary of State was released from the Santa Martha Acatitla Women’s Prison on August 19, after obtaining provisional release under conditions such as the prohibition to leave the country and report every 15 days to the Precautionary Measures Unit.
He has another arrest warrant pending for organized crime and laundering of more than 77 million pesos, the first of which is a crime with ex officio preventive detention. Strangely, the FGR has not wanted to execute this arrest warrant, despite not having a legal impediment.
