Mexico’s attorney general said on Sunday that 14 people They were arrested for allegedly involved in illicit fuel trafficking and reiterated that more actions will be undertaken as new information arises.
On March 19, the authorities seized an oil ship in the port of Tampico, together with almost 63,000 diesel barrels, as well as containers and vehicles for transport and storage.
The ship, Challenge Procyon, had come from the United States, according to LSEG tank tracking data.
The Mexican authorities then indicated that Diesel was carried out subject to a special import tax; Instead, he had been declared in customs as a petrochemical exempt from it.
“This assurance is one of the greatest in recent history related to this illicit and began a series of investigation and intelligence works that revealed part of a criminal structure behind these activities,” said the attorney general of the country, Alejandro Gertz. “There will be more actions.”
Gertz added that these investigations confirmed the existence of an organization dedicated to illegal hydrocarbon robbery and trafficking, which used false documentationthe complicity of customs agencies and public officials.
The Mexican authorities have not revealed the names of the companies and have only provided the names without the surnames of the detained people.
Investigations on these entrepreneurs, naval officers in assets and retired, and former customs officials continue.
Raymundo Morales, head of the Mexican Navy, declared at the same press conference in Mexico City that the Navy had strengthened internal controls and disciplinary procedures to prevent and eradicate the illegal importation of fuels.
“We protect the institution, without excuseing isolated individual behaviors that violate citizen confidence,” he said with Gertz and the Secretary of Security, Omar García Harfuch.
