The spokesman for the Attorney General of Justice from Mexico City (FGJCDMX) Ulises Lara López released in the second of three reports on the Real Estate Cartel, that sophia von roehrich, sister of the former mayor of Benito Juárez, Christian Von Roehrich, detained today, he also benefited from acts of corruption that were intended to get departments.
According to what was presented, in one of the investigations it was shown that the Von Roehrich brothers obtained two properties valued at almost 10 million pesos of the project City Towers Green & Black with simulated payments to a Sofia company, who is also in pretrial detention.
The official shared in a press conference fragments of the confession of a witness who narrates that in April 2018 the then delegate summoned him to his offices in the Benito Juárez mayor’s office, where he informed him that the company, of which her sister Sofía was the attorney, would be the one that would buy two apartments from them.
The operation would have been done for a property of approximately 5.9 and another of 4 million pesosboth part of the City Towers Green & Black project.
It was April 24, 2018 that Sofia Von Roehrich signed two purchase/sale contracts in his capacity as representative of a company located in Mexico City.
“However, the properties were paid for years later, possibly through a mechanism little transparent and that it only benefited the former delegate and his sister.”
According to the witness and his companion, the payment for those apartments was not made at the time, but until February 2020 and July 2021 through payments that they made to the construction company and that they later returned.
“A certificate of delivery and receipt of the apartment was made on August 29, 2019 and there are the original contracts and a copy of the two apartments that approximately totaled ten million pesos, although the payment we received in return was only 7,434 million pesos”, he explained.
According to the witness, this sum of money was received by the company through different invoices received from February 11, 2020 to July 15, 2021some of which the Prosecutor’s Office showed after verifying that they are official, to prove the Christian Von Roehrich’s modus operandi.
Approximately 37 receipts were delivered for “work that was not carried out”, but the company granted 15 CFDIs that contemplated the payment made to them by the mayor’s sister’s company for 7 million 434 thousand 900 pesos.
When Von Roehrich left the mayor’s office and became a local deputy, he would also have requested the witness businessman, a apartment in City Towers Park Grand. Said property was to be bought by Antonio “N”, relative of the Deputy Jorge Romero Herrera at a lower price.
The spokesman for the Prosecutor’s Office indicated that with the information obtained from the investigations they have found that the former mayor, his sister, the federal deputy, as well as other former officials of the Benito Juárez mayor’s office are related to the real estate cartelincluding irregularities with the constructions that would be made after the earthquake of September 2017.
“We will give you the supports of the estimates of the works we had carried out, because they would present some estimates for the collection of the work that we had done. He told me that there were three companies that would present invoices and estimates for said works… They they were going to make the invoices and accredit that said works had been carried out by themin order to be able to receive money, which at that time the city and the delegation were giving as support for the issue of reconstruction due to the previous earthquake,” said the witness.
Lara López announced that in the next conference on the case they will release more information about the modus operandi that past administrations of the Benito Juárez mayor’s office benefited from stealing money from the public treasury.
