PGR Gives 90 Days to Former Governors to Appear in Taumaulipa

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(CNNMéxico) - The Attorney General's Office (PGR) gave 90 days to ex-governors of Tamaulipas, Eugenio Hernández Tomás Yarrington and Flores, to appear before the Special Unit for Crimes against Health or properties that have been secured pass into the hands of the federal government.

By a decree published in the newspaper Excelsior, the PGR said that Yarrington, who was governor of Tamaulipas from 1999 to 2005, we were assured two properties: one in Matamoros, Tamaulipas, and one in Mexico City.

Both properties were seized computer equipment, entertainment, furniture and jewelry. The PGR also seized three bank accounts belonging to former governor, two in the bank Banamex, one with 272,882.23 112.032 pesos. second with 81 pesos, third in Bancomer 3603.95 pesos and a credit card issued by Santander with 3.818 pesos.

A Eugenio Hernandez Flores, who was governor of Tamaulipas, 2005 and 2010 were secured him two properties: a building in Ciudad Victoria, Tamaulipas, and a ranch in Victoria-Monterrey highway.

Within the ranch were secured computer entertainment, furniture, sculptures, exercise equipment, five horses, 86 cows and three peacocks, according to the list published in the edict.

And four bank accounts, the first in Banorte 100,131.14 pesos, two in HSBC, one with  38,479.16 and second one  with 2,344,206.63 pesos, the last in the bank Santander 535.01 pesos, the PGR reported in the paper.

The PGR also published notices in the national newspaper where asked to appear before the eight alleged prestanombres of former Governor Tomas Yarrington, told Jose Luis Manjarrez CNNMéxico, CIO of Social Communication of the PGR.

Suspected Salinas prestanombres are Alfredo Perez Chavez, Tijerina Angelica Morales, Delia Tijerina Salinas Perez, Alfredo Perez Salinas Tijerina, Pier Antonio Pelaez, Bernardo Gonzalez Mauricio Fernandez, Seyed Mohammad Fatemi Faraough Corcuera Martínez and Fernando Alejandro Cano.

One of them, Antonio Pelaez Pier, was secured Fronton Island located in Ozuluama Mascarene, in the state of Veracruz, said the PRG in the edict. There also were secured furniture, computer equipment and electronics, two ATVs, a boat and a tractor.

The PGR reported in the edicts that were secured by property listings exist "signs that represent the object, product, and / or instrument of unlawful activities covered by federal law."

In January, the PGR confirmed that already investigating two other exgobernadores Yarrington of Tamaulipas, Manuel Cavazos (1993-1999) and Eugenio Hernandez (2005-2010), for alleged links with strawmen and businesses linked to organized crime.

In June, the federal agency said it conducted raids on 30 properties exgobernadores of Tamaulipas, Eugenio Hernandez and Tomas Yarrington, or people related to them, as part of investigations into alleged links to organized crime.

A month later, the prosecutor Marisela Morales reported that a federal judge issued an arrest warrant against the former governor of Tamaulipas, Tomas Yarrington, for crimes against health, said Wednesday the Attorney General's Office.

Morales told reporters at the time that Yarrington is considered a fugitive from justice, and that the PGR use "all the means" at its disposal to locate the former governor.

"They had an exchange of information with various institutions, both in Mexico and abroad, in the United States," Morales said at the time.

Yarrington was mayor from 1992 to 1995 Matamoros, Tamaulipas governor between 1999 and 2004, and tried in 2005 as the candidate of the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) to the presidency.

In America Yarrington is incovolucrado in two investigations related to organized crime.

According to Texas prosecutors, Tomas Yarrington cartels invested money from real estate in Texas and Mexico through strawmen, who helped him launder "millions in profits from drug trafficking activities."

Yarrington said that the case against him is a hunt federal government policy. "I have no connection with organized crime," he said last June in an interview with journalist Carmen Aristegui. "No I have not received bribes and provided protection to any criminal."

Tamaulipas is one of the states that has been fighting between the Gulf Cartel and Los Zetas criminal group, who are fighting for control of drug trafficking routes to the United States.

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