THE SEIDO INVESTIGATES MARA LEZAMA

THE SEIDO INVESTIGATES MARA LEZAMA FOR ILLICIT ENRICHMENT

By: Romamy Miranda Gutiérrez

 

Mara Elena Hermelinda Lezama, municipal president of the Benito Juárez municipality (Cancún)

EVEN THOUGH the president, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, requested that Mara Elena Hermelinda Lezama, municipal president of the Benito Juárez municipality (Cancún), be investigated for the complaint filed by the civil association Opus Magnum of Mexico, before the Specialized Attorney's Office in Organized Crime Investigation (SEIDO), for the commission of the crime for alleged operations with resources of illicit origin

Mayor Lezama, during her daily COVID-19 reporting program, after allegations of corruption she faces for the purchase of real estate through a company created by her family commented:

"These are times when we must not fight or be attentive to unfounded attacks, because it must be said, in the midst of the crisis there are always those who want us to be shipwrecked"

On July 1, the communicator became the second woman to lead the municipality (Magaly Achach Solís, 1999-2002), after obtaining a figure of 191 thousand 198 votes under the acronym Morena-PT, almost 100 thousand than his predecessor Remberto Estrada, from the PRI-Green Party coalition, who won at the height of Borgismo.

For almost two years at the helm of the municipality, violence continues to increase in Cancun, despite the fact that the state is semi paralyzed and the population in confinement due to the health emergency caused by the coronavirus, there are illegal activities that do not rest.

The mayor has surpassed the records of her two predecessors in executions, kidnappings, business robberies, among other crime rates.

COMPLAINT BEFORE THE SIEDO appears in the investigation folder 372/2020.

The acquisition of the land, which has an area of ​​900 m2, would have been made in the name of the company Desarrolladora Cumpal, S.A.P. I. de C.V., for a sale price of the property of 4 million 800 thousand pesos, but with a commercial value of more than 32 million 19 thousand 644 pesos.

Similarly, in said deed, Omar Terrazas García and Miguel Ángel Lezama Espinosa, husband and brother of Mara Lezama, respectively, act as proxies for the property.

Said acquisition is recorded in public deed number P.A.14,784 issued by Notary Public number 62, Lic. Heyden J. Cebada Rivas, in the City of Cancún, Quintana Roo on June 21, 2016.

The same deed certifies the adjudication of the property located in Block 27, Lot 1-02 Puerto Cancún Condominal Unit 69-04-269, Section-c Avenida Bonampak in the city of Cancún, Municipality of Benito Juárez, Quintana Roo. (Source: Zócalo)

Homes de Puerto Cancún, according to information from the Public Registry of Property and Commerce in Cancún.