Abel Barajas/ Reform Agency
Sunday, January 15, 2023 | 08:08
CDMX.- Three Conacyt scientists and academics definitively released the charges of organized crime and money laundering, for the contributions of 244 million pesos that that organization made to the Consultative, Scientific and Technological Forum (FCCyT).
A collegiate court ordered the cancellation of the criminal case against Regina María Alarcón Contreras, Inocencio Higuera Ciapara and Luis Mier and Terán Casanueva.
By majority vote, the Magistrates of the First Collegiate Criminal Court in Mexico City determined that on September 21, 2021, when the control judge of Almoloya de Juárez denied for the second time the capture of the scientists, he should also have dismissed or canceled this file definitively.
In other words, the judge should have issued a pronouncement in the sense that the FGR could not continue investigating the case or refine it for a new prosecution.
The Magistrates resorted to article 253 of the National Code of Criminal Procedures, which states that the Prosecutor’s Office must refrain from investigating when the facts of a complaint do not constitute a crime.
The investigation implied a high risk for the freedom of the defendants, because organized crime is a crime with ex officio preventive detention, that is, they would go to jail immediately.
With the decision of the collegiate court, four of the 36 investigated scientists have achieved the final cancellation of the most serious criminal charges against them.
