A federal judge ordered the release of the former director of Mexican oil (Pemex), Emilio Lozoya for the case of the purchase of the fertilizer plant Agronitrogenados; however, the former official will continue in preventive detention for the investigation of the Brazilian construction company odebrecht.
The former director of Pemex remains in preventive detention justified in the North Recluse for more than three months for the case Agrnitrogenados.
Lozoya Austin would be sentenced to 39 years in prison for the Odebrecht case, accused of committing the crimes of money laundering, bribery and criminal association.
In its first written accusation against the former director of Pemex, the General Prosecutor of the Republic (FGR) asked Artemio Zúñiga Mendoza, control judge of the Federal Criminal Justice Center of the North Prison, to impose 15 years in prison on Lozoya for committing the crime of money laundering, 14 years for bribery, and for criminal association, 10 more years.
for the case Agro Nitrogenated, Lozoya Austin is accused of having received a bribe of 3.4 million dollars so that Pemex would buy at a premium Blast Furnaces of Mexico (AHMSA) a fertilizer plant classified by federal authorities as “scrap,” located in Coatzacoalcos, Veracruz.
