The Sofomes return to the negative arena

The issue of collection delegated to payroll credits via the Multiple Purpose Financial Companies (Sofomes) returns to the Treasury Commission in the Senate.

Pedro Haces is one of the promoters of this proposal, which can be defined in the authorization for Sofomes to collect loans via payroll before the worker’s salary falls into his bank account.

The big but is that it would go against the current financial laws, and even more, by not having a limit for granting credit to workers, as is the case with banks, the worker would see his fortnight diluted without being able to do anything.

It should not be forgotten that the payroll credit rate offered by Sofomes is in many cases two or three times higher than what is established for other financial institutions.

There are no affectations with this issue that seriously haunts the legislative halls.

The irregularities and frauds that have been committed via some Sofomes would be more latent.

It is worth remembering the topic of the Fobaproba of teachers, where 20 Sofomes were involved in granting loans to workers when they believed that they were resources from the union. At the time of the teacher.

A more recent case, which is already being investigated by the US authorities, is that of Crédito Real, under the command of Ángel Francisco Romanos Berrondo, given that they requested support from US funds when issuing debt for loans and did not report, nor with what guarantees they lent to Interjet when it was already bankrupt. Thus the topic that will surely give much to talk about.

NO FICREA OUTPUT. Although it seems that the Ficrea case may be reopened, given that the United States has just deported the former owner, Rafael Antonio Olvera, the reality is that the possibilities for savers who saw their resources diluted, and who after five years have recovered 20 or 30% of those savings, are not at all encouraging, given that the crime of money laundering has not been proven. Although the scenario for the benefit of the government of Andrés Manuel López Obrador could be different, the crime of tax evasion is firm.

Hence, in the processes that would be carried out, now in national territory, a window is glimpsed, in favor of whom, that is what is not clear, nor the time in which they could be defined.

But it is certain that the lawyers who have handled the Ficrea case in favor of the savers will see it again. The big question here is how much political will there will be.

Another issue that already causes suspicions of corruption are the irregularities that are being detected in the water service in the State of Mexico, specifically in:

ESCAPE IN TLALNEPANTLA. What a time bomb that the current municipal president of Tlalnepantla, Marco Antonio Rodríguez Hurtado, will have to solve. There are 20,000 water meters in poor condition quantified. But it is also a matter of going around the offices of the Water Commission of that municipality, and the famous irregularities of “turning the meter” are a constant, mainly among elderly people.

It is a constant that receipts arrive for water supply that oscillate in 3,000 pesos, when the consumption was between 400 and 500 pesos. And not to mention the fines for bad practices, mostly not made by users.

Several questions are enough to know that the issue exploded in the administration of Raciel Pérez Cruz. Time in which maintenance should have been carried out and the issue addressed, but nothing was done. We know that the current administration will address the issue shortly with a massive campaign to find a fundamental solution and not just a formal one. I wish it so. We will follow the matter closely.