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The purchase of 571 tank trucks was signed: López Obrador
Néstor Jiménez | Monday, 21 Jan 2019 08:36
https://www.jornada.com.mx/ultimas/2019/01/21/se-firmo-ya-la-compra-de-570-pipas-lopez-obrador-3467.html
Pipes from Pemex leave the Azcapotzalco Refinery to distribute gasoline at the CDMX on January 16, 2019.
Roberto García photo
Mexico City.
The federal government signed on Sunday the purchase of 571 tank trucks for the distribution of fuel which is expected to increase by 200 thousand more barrels to solve the problem of supply in the presence of clandestine outlets in pipelines of Pemex, said on Monday President Andrés Manuel López Obrador.
At a press conference in the National Palace, he explained that the purchase of the auto-tanks represents an investment of 85 million 393 thousand 97 dollars. He stressed that there are still to buy 136 more so that in total there are 707 units, and reach this distribution goal in March.
"If we see the problem in the structural, deep down, we find that there are not enough pipelines, the number of pipelines has not grown, they are the same ones of more than 30 years with thousands of clandestine outlets, patched pipelines, and with very little possibility to distribute fuel. That is why it was decided to expand the capacity to distribute with pipes. Before the Hidalgo tragedy, it was decided to buy tank trucks to increase the volume of fuel transported, "said the national president.
In the country the equivalent to 800 thousand barrels of fuel is consumed every day, he explained. With the tank trucks it is sought to increase 200 thousand barrels plus the distribution, since "constantly it is necessary to be stopping pipelines by clandestine takes".
He recalled that in order to acquire the units, a "mission" went to the United States, made up of the heads of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Economy, Public Function and with the participation of National Defense officials, among other agencies, since "it is a matter of National security".
"This will mean, dispose at the end of March, units to distribute 116 thousand additional barrels, but if we make two trips, for example, Tuxpan - Mexico City, we would have a distribution of 200 thousand more barrels," added the president López Obrador.
He announced that on Tuesday will announce the general welfare plan, and will go to two communities in the state of Mexico, including Acambay, where just over a week ago videos of people were circulated with drums to collect gasoline from a leak.
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Pemex: the business of 700 tank trucks and 71 million dollars investigated by the government of AMLO
BY JENARO VILLAMIL,
20 JANUARY, 2019 PRESIDENCY, SPECIAL REPORT
https://www.proceso.com.mx/568404/pemex-el-negocio-de-700-pipas-y-71-mdd-que-investiga-el-gobierno-de-amlo
MEXICO CITY (Process) .- On the eve of the energy reform that would fully open the market for gasoline and hydrocarbons, Pemex convened in 2013 an international public tender (ITS-27235) to produce, manufacture and deliver 700 tankers, of which 300 would distribute gasolines and 400 would be used for diesel.
The tender was awarded to the US company Ethan Gas Oil LLC, which in turn subcontracted the company Mundo Global de Remolques SA de CV, through a contract for the production of goods, as well as technology supply, held on September 30. of 2013.
The cost of each of the 300 tanker trucks was 98,700 dollars, and that of each of the remaining 400 vehicles, 105 thousand 200 dollars. The entire operation amounted to 71 million 690 thousand dollars, as recorded in the court file, whose copy obtained Process.
According to the information available, Pemex paid an advance of 365 million 549 thousand pesos (18 million 277 thousand dollars, approximately), but neither Ethan Gas Oil nor Global World of Trailers delivered one of the 700 vehicles tendered to transport gasoline and diesel.
Ethan Gas Oil, through its legal representative Leonardo Velasco Pérez, criminally sued the representatives of Mundo Global de Remolques SA de CV, Griselda Escalona Gómez and Norberto Jesús Quesada Almaraz, for "generic fraud" because the company that subcontracted did not deliver the vehicles.
In the judicial decision of the case, dated August 24, 2018, Judge Maurilio Domínguez Cruz, of the Ninth Criminal Chamber, determined that there was no crime on the part of Global World of Trailers because the Public Prosecutor of the Attorney General's Office of Justice Mexico City did not provide the necessary evidence, such as the copy of the tender and the terms thereof, to know if Ethan Gas Oil could or could not subcontract.
However, the magistrate stated that "there is a likelihood, up to this point in time, that the sum of money (365 million 549 thousand pesos) has been totally or partially delivered by Pemex to the offended Ethan Gas Oil, to which this tender was awarded for the production and manufacture of the 700 tanker trucks, which Pemex did not receive. "
Since August 27, 2018 the magistrate of the Ninth Criminal Chamber sent to the then head of the Office of the Attorney General of the Republic, Alberto Elías Beltrán, a copy of the file to investigate whether the oil company was "a direct victim because of possible involvement of legal assets of the Federation, reason why it is sent in a sealed envelope, certified copy of the resolution ".
In the same terms, a copy was sent to the Superior Audit Office of the Federation, responsible for overseeing the exercise of Pemex's budget, as well as the head of the Energy Secretariat in his capacity as chairman of the Board of Directors of the state's productive enterprise. , and the CEO of the oil company.
The complaint of AMLO
This case of alleged fraud was not publicly known until President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, in his press conference on Friday 18, mentioned that in the government of Enrique Peña Nieto was so much corruption in Pemex that 700 tankers were purchased from a company and "this one gave to another the advance of 365 million pesos, they do not do anything and they do not deliver the units. We are talking about one thousand 300 million pesos. It is a judicial matter. We are going to review it. Nothing was ever delivered. "
And this Sunday, in his morning conference, López Obrador explained that the probable fraudulent operation began in 2013 and although he did not give names, in that year Emilio Lozoya was in charge of Pemex.
In that case there will be no end point ?, he was asked.
"Do not. It is that, in addition to that was the complaint in progress. If I find out about a crime, if an official tells me something in a meeting, supposedly private about a crime, my response is: act, proceed, because if I do not become an accomplice, "he answered.
"I have more information, I can say that they were railway tanks, 700, and they keep an advance payment of 400 million pesos and Pemex files a complaint that not even a law intern would do it, generic, without evidence, and the fraud. And until now there is no justice, "he accused.
"This dossier of the tanker trucks, so that they do not go around blaming anyone, a citizen gave it to me, they did not deliver it to me from government officials; a citizen handed me the file. "
The main information of this text was published on January 20, 2019 in the 2203 edition of Proceso magazine.
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