The Judicial Power will act with “independence and impartiality in the fulfillment of its duty”, assured Arturo Zaldívar, magistrate president of the Supreme Court, to the scientists and academics indicated for organized crime by the Attorney General’s Office of the Republic (FGR).
The judge met this Wednesday with the former officials of the Council’s Scientific and Technological Consultative Forum, this at the request of the researchers. “During the meeting, the minister-president listened with respect and attention to the concerns and requests of scientists and academics,” reported the Supreme Court of Justice of the Nation in a statement.
Alejandro Gertz Manero, head of the unit, sought to obtain arrest warrants against 31 scientists. However, on September 22, a federal judge from the El Altiplano Federal Criminal Justice Center denied the appeal. It is accused that the members of the forum allegedly and illegally received 50 million pesos during the administration of Enrique Peña Nieto. “In this context, it is necessary to remember that, in 2019, Conacyt maintained a dialogue process with the private civil association Foro Consultivo, Científico y Tecnológico, AC, which required the Council to provide annual resources for 50 million pesos,” said the council it’s a statement.At the discretion of the judge of the criminal case, the events that the Prosecutor’s Office intends to prosecute did not occur in the State of Mexico, so it would have to be a judge from Mexico City who heard the case. After the refusal, the Prosecutor’s Office announced that it would try to obtain the arrest warrants against the investigators again.
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