The request to investigate the fortune of the Morenoist senator Adam Augusto Lopez Hernandez caused controversy and division within the Citizen Participation Committee of the National Anticorruption System (SNA).
This after Vania Pérez Moralespresident of the Citizen Participation Committee of the SNApromoted a statement calling on various federal agencies to investigate the former governor of Tabascoremoved from networks hours later.
“No one is above the law and parliamentary jurisdiction should not become impunity. The institutional way to address public allegations is to investigate, verify and communicate results, based on evidence, preserving the presumption of innocence and due process,” the document indicates.
This positioning was also signed by the Citizen Participation committees of the Anti-Corruption Systems of Aguascalientes, Quintana Roo, Durango, Michoacán, Campeche, Jalisco y Sinaloaas well as in a personal capacity by the president of the system of Puebla.
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With the argument that the recent accusations against the former head of the Ministry of the Interior deserve “official, prompt and documented verification,” the call to investigate the former governor of Tabasco is for the Financial Intelligence Unit and the Attorney General’s Officeto assess “the appropriateness of opening or continuing investigations into possible unusual operations, and if applicable, prosecute them in strict accordance with the law.”
It is also requested to Tax Administration System (SAT) investigate the consistency of the tax returns of the Morena leader in the Senate, as well as the Superior Audit of the Federation and the Internal Control Body of the Upper House follow up on any complaint.
National Anti-Corruption System lowered statement about Adán Augusto
However, the positioning was lowered from the official social networks of the National Anti-Corruption System, for which its president, Vania Pérez, accused pressure from the Senate to avoid the topic, as well as censorship by the counselor Blanca Patricia Talavera Torres.
“She spoke to the office to say that she demanded that the statement be taken down, because she did not agree and that they had already spoken to her about the senate. That is what we know,” said Pérez Morales in an interview with 24 HOURS.
The federal official indicated that Counselor Talavera (who will succeed her as president of the System in three months) harassed the social media staff, who made the decision to remove the publication, not at the direction of any superior.
“Commissioner Patricia Talavera spoke to the team to demand that he get off, and she was sending them emails, and she was harassing them to get him off, and finally they decided to get off,” he added.
He stated that one of the reasons Talavera gave for removing the statement was that the Senate Political Coordination Boardchaired by Adán Augusto López, “is no longer going to take appointments from us.”
When consulted by this newspaper, Talavera Torres recalled that the SNA is made up of three counselors, so the positioning was in the personal capacity of the president of the System, so together with the counselor Rafael Martínez Puón It was agreed, by majority, to download it from institutional channels.
They reject pressure from the Senate
The counselor rejected that there is pressure from Senate and said that the position against Adán Augusto López did not follow the formal procedure, which was to approve it collegially, either in an extraordinary or ordinary session… and the next one will be in November.
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It turned out that for months the SNA Committee has been keeping a statement on the cases of fiscal huachicol in the country in the freezer. In addition, the system remains without an Executive Secretary.
The past September 29, 24 HOURS published that Adán Augusto López, during the time he was head of the Secretary of the Interior (Segob), in the six-year term of Andrés Manuel López Obradordeclared extra income from his job in the federal government for 11 million pesosof which 9 million pesos were for leases.
While other research revealed that received 79 million pesos from companies private between 2023 and 2024to which the senator explained that these incomes did appear in his tax returns, but not in his assets, and that they were from inheritances, real estate businesses and livestock.