Gertz Manero accused senators of suffering alleged government espionage: Loret de Mola

The revelation of audios suggesting his alleged manipulation in the Supreme Court of Justice of the Nation (SCJN) led the Attorney General, Alejandro Gertz Manero, to appear before the Political Coordination Board (Jucopo) of the Senate House s, last March 17.

In this way, the head of the Attorney General's Office (FGR) addressed the questions of the judges in a closed session with complete confidentiality, in which he accused that these leaks meant a espionage against him orchestrated by the Government.

This was revealed by the journalist, Carlos Loret de Mola, in his column for El Universal, noting that, according to his sources, he inferred that the leak would be part of a play by Julio Scherer, former Legal Counsel with whom he maintains acid friction.

“All or many of us here know where it comes from (espionage)”, was how the magistrate would have hinted to the legislators present the intervention of the lawyer who is currently accusing him of persecution.

On March 5, the eye of the hurricane again pointed to the prosecutor after a telephone call was issued in which he allegedly reproached the minister, Alberto Pérez Dayán for not to include “not a single line” of what had been agreed in the draft submitted to the Supreme Court.

That is why, Carlos adds, that Gertz, before the Senators, also called those who released the audio as alleged extortionists, criminals, cowards and cynics, which, he stressed, would deserve up to 30 years in prison.

With regard to the archives, the prosecutor chose to justify what was said by stating that ten ministers had agreed with the rejection of Pérez Dayán's presentation under the same arguments that could be seen in the audio. Even so, the columnist reports that Gertz doubled the bet to continue on the case.

With this evidence, Loret de Mola ended up questioning, first of all, about who or who had the ability and interest to intercept the audio. And, secondly, why the tranquility of the president, Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) in the face of this situation, as well as that of Julio Scherer against Gertz and Olga Sánchez Cordero.

Doubly questioned by Scherer Ibarra's revelations, President López Obrador has insisted that he will not intervene in the accusations against the now President of the Senate Bureau, nor the Attorney General.

Since his morning conference, the Chief Executive declared that his agenda is more important issues to attend to, in such a way that he instructed to take the matter to the appropriate judicial bodies: “We don't want to get involved,” he said in one of his mornings.

This generated controversy in public opinion, as the president's position contrasts with other situations in which he has spent a lot of time in his mornings to advocate for servers involved in some kind of controversies, being an exceptional case that of Gertz Manero.

This was the case of March 7, when - despite being ignorant of the leak - AMLO expressed sympathy of his Prosecutor in the case of the alleged involvement of his sister-in-law, Laura Morán, and his daughter, Alejandra Cuevas, in the murder of her brother, Federico Gertz Manero: “I understand the moral and human situation of the Prosecutor”.

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