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Nicolas Mollinedo he questioned this Monday Tim Golden’s integrityProPublica reporter and author of the report that suggests that the team of the then campaign logistics coordinator Andrés Manuel López Obrador in 2006 he received drug money.
“I’m not aware that they are investigating us, but what I told Tim is that If it’s not real, why take it out? If they closed (the investigation) for Lack of evidence…”, he declared in an interview with Radio Formula.
‘Nico’ revealed that he was interviewed by Golden 15 days before the publication of the report. During the calls, the former driver Lopez Obrador He said he corrected several erroneous information to the journalist.
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According to research published by Golden, Mauricio Sotoidentified as part of ‘Nico”s work team in López Obrador’s first presidential campaign, obtained 2 million dollars in payments made by Edgar Valdez Villarreal, ‘La Barbie’ who at that time worked for the Beltrán Leyva Cartel.
According to Golden’s story published in ProPublica, ‘La Barbie’ organized a meeting in a hotel in Puerto Vallarta in January 2006 to which he was invited Francisco Leon Garciacandidate for the Senate of the López Obrador coalition in Durango and who was friend of one of the drug trafficker’s lieutenants.
At the meeting, ‘La Barbie’ raised the possibility that the cartel would inject money to López Obrador’s presidential campaign in exchange for him selecting “law officials who would be helpful to traffickers” once he came to power.
The report states that León García took this approach to Mauricio Soto who in turn would have allegedly informed Nicolás Mollinedo.
“I told Tim: It is completely false (the accusations). Of all the actors who appear in the investigation, the one I know the most is Mauricio, who was my collaborator in 2006, and I met on two occasions, no more than three times, one who was a candidate in 2006, Francisco León. To the others (mentioned characters) I don’t know them, I haven’t met them or talked to them.”, he added in an interview with Ciro Gómez Leyva.
Mollinedo suggested that the publication of the report seeks ‘hit’ López Obrador precisely in an electoral year in which who will succeed him as President of the Republic will be chosen.
According to Golden, the investigation into the alleged financing of organized crime to López Obrador’s presidential campaign did not proceed because the authorities considered that The evidence and accusations were not compelling..
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Mollinedo was questioned by Gómez Leyva about whether representatives of the organized crime They tried to get close to the then-presidential candidate during his campaign events.
“I don’t think they approached, not that I know they identified themselves, and not ‘just’ in 2006, nor in 2012. I never took note of itor”, he remarked.
‘Nico’ explained that López Obrador did not have time to talk to any assistant during the campaign events, and that the only meetings that were held at that time with the candidate’s team were on Mondays, Tuesdays and Wednesdays in Mexico City to check how they were going.
“Many people came for the campaign and in all this, there was no time to exchange two or three words (…) The lawyer never procrastinated by talking a lot with them.”, he highlighted.
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