In four years in office, the governor of Tamaulipas, Francisco Javier García Cabeza de Vaca, formed a “criminal organization” with family members and partners that used billing companies, shell companies, and even firms related to the huachicoleo to triangulate resources.
The Financial Intelligence Unit (UIF) discovered this money laundering program that focused on properties Mexico City, Tamaulipas and TexasFor the latter, the Treasury Department placed the PAN president and one of his partners on the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network’s lists for “suspicious activity reports.”
In the petition for violation sent by the Office of the Attorney General (FGR) to the Chamber of Deputies by MILLENNIUMIt is detailed that the company Productora Rural y Agropecuaria Regional CAVA SA de CV, of which the Governor of Tamaulipas is a partner, along with his wife, Mariana Gómez Leal; his mother, María de Lourdes Cabeza de Vaca; his brother, (current PAN senator) Ismael García Cabeza de Vaca and his sister-in-law, Evelyn Aimee Rodríguez Garza, served as a front to make hundreds of trips to buy properties.
The FIU found that 175 operations were carried out on the bank account of this firm in 2019 for an amount of 40 million 758 thousand 502 pesos and “it was only a simulation of operations by the financial system to disperse the trail of funds”.
His brother José Manuel García Cabeza de Vaca received from the company Liderazgo Tecnológico Empresarial, which is on the SAT lists as a “final simulator”, that is, 4 million 700 thousand pesos and later 4 million 600 thousand to his company Goder SA invoices the CV (invoice) of Pavimentos del Soeste SA de CV, “which is related to a person who has been associated with theft of hydrocarbons in Tamaulipas and which were distributed in small quantities in the accounts of the partners of the Rural Producer and Agropecuaria Regional CAVA SA de CV “
The governor of Tamaulipas, Francisco Javier García Cabeza de Vaca, He also organized together with Juan Francisco Tamez Arellano, shareholder and representative of the company T Seis Doce SA de CV and with Baltazar Higinio Reséndez Cantú, lawyer and administrator of Inmobiliaria RC Tamaulipas SA de CV and Barca de Reynosa SA de CV, with whom he preferred work contracts of his government for 55 million 640 thousand 58 pesos.
In 2019, the triangulation of funds was completed when Tamez Arellano made five deposits (on May 30 for 30 million pesos; on July 4, August 19 and September 19 for one million each and on December 10 for three million 461 thousand pesos) to the account 075779290018 in the name of Francisco García Cabeza de Vaca.
The PAN President is accused of ‘winning bids and obtaining donations for no apparent reason’, as well as’ acquiring luxury vehicles whose ultimate beneficiary was the Tamaulipas Energy Commissioner, with whom he also conducted international interbank transactions, for no legitimate reason. apparently “.
The State Commissioner for Energy, Andrés Fusco Clynes, resigned in February 2020 “for personal reasons”.
For this reason, the FIU has filed complaints for organized crime crimes, operations with means of illegal origin and tax fraud equated with “the criminal organization” formed by Francisco Javier García Cabeza de Vaca; his wife Mariana Gómez Leal; his mother, María de Lourdes Cabeza de Vaca; his brother Ismael and his sister-in-law: Evelyn Aimee Rodríguez and his partners: Baltazar Higinio Reséndez Cantú and Juan Francisco Tamez Arellano for money laundering using front companies to take advantage of bids and contracts.
Peña acquitted him
When Tamaulipas media revealed an alleged statement by Antonio Peña Argüelles, under the figure of a protected witness Ángeles, where he confessed to laundering money from former governor Tomás Yarrington and funding the campaign for Reynosa, Francisco Javier García Cabeza undertook de Vaca a strategy legal and prosecuted.
The PRI government of Enrique Pena said he had not found García Cabeza de Vaca’s name in the drug trafficking investigation that existed against the three former governors of Tamaulipas, not even mentioned in U.S to receive bribes from Gulf Cartel.
During the reign of Felipe Calderón, the Office of the Prosecutor General of the Republic initiated the preliminary investigation PGR / SIEDO / UEIDCS / 012/2009 against Manuel Cavazos Lerma, Tomás Yarrington Ruvalcaba and Eugenio Hernández Flores into their alleged links to organized crime, but already with the change of government, two months before the elections in Tamaulipas, prosecutors were trying to know if the then was a PAN candidate, “Francisco Javier García Cabeza de VacaWas mentioned in said directory.
The Office of the Special Prosecutor’s Office for Organized Crime Investigation PGR, then headed by Arely Gómez, who was also a companion of Cabeza de Vaca’s Senate legislature between 2012 and 2015, made a request to his board for legal support and ministerial scrutiny to know if the current governor of Tamaulipas and the answer was that in 420 more attached books, there was no allusion to the witness who did accuse Yarrington, before the PGR’s attaché in Texas, Kepler Barron Arteaga.
That was the response of the Public Prosecutor’s Agent Grimaldo Gerardo Cajero Morales who sent on May 5, 2016 to the request of Héctor Alejandro Meza Cabello Deputy Director at SEIDO, on the occasion of the integration of the preliminary investigation PGR / DGCAP / ZC – ESP -XXI / 4/2016, initiated by the mention of Cabeza de Vaca on the plot of Yarrington and his former partner Peña Argüelles.
This time, the FIU confirmed in its complaints against Cabeza de Vaca that the Treasury Department’s FinCen itself confirmed suspected money laundering transactions.
According to the complaint from Emilio Lozoya, the former Pemex director who stopped the FGR from prosecuting Odebrecht’s bribes in exchange for pointing to the entire criminal network he wove, Cabeza de Vaca was one of the beneficiaries of these funds. to approve the energy reform and later became governor of Tamaulipas, being part of that PAN group close to PRI operators like Videgaray, which formed a compact group and shared interests.
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