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EXTERNAL GOVERNOR ROBERTO BORGE IS DETAINED IN PANAMA

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The governor of Quintana Roo, Carlos Joaquín González confirmed that an arrest warrant had been issued against Roberto Borge, accused of money laundering, illicit enrichment and acquisition with undervalued lands.

Former governor of Quintana Roo Roberto Borge Angulo detained in Panama. First photo

Mexico City, June 4 (SinEmbargo). - Former governor of Quintana Roo, Roberto Borge Angulo (2011-2016), was arrested in Panama when he was about to board an airplane.

Borge, a man described by the president Enrique Peña Nieto as "the new generation of the PRI", arrived at the gubernatura by the Institutional Revolutionary.

The arrest comes just on the night of controversial elections in Mexico, when the PRI has declared itself a winner in the State of Mexico and opposition parties demand a "state election."



Martí Batres, leader of Morena in the capital, said ironically what a coincidence they were by the politician accused of corruption just now, when the PRI debates its future.

The Attorney General's Office (PGR) reported in his Twitter account about the arrest of the former president, who was sentenced on Thursday for the crime of operations with resources of illicit origin.

"We have arrested Roberto Borge with the support of # Panama and # Interpol, just before he boarded a flight to # Paris."
The agency later issued a statement detailing that "based on a red notification issued at the request of Mexico by the INTERPOL General Secretariat, Mr. Roberto Borge Angulo was arrested in Panama"

"Through investigations of cabinet and field by members of the Criminal Investigation Agency and INTERPOL Panama, it was known that this person was staying in a Hotel in the Panamanian Capital and that would approach the day of the date a flight with Destination to Paris, France, so an operation was implemented and thus achieved its capture at the Tocumen International Airport of Panama, "said the PGR.

Roberto Borge is, along with former governors Javier and César Duarte, from Veracruz and Chihuahua, respectively, part of the new generation of PRI who, according to President Enrique Peña Nieto, would transform the country.

Roberto Borge Angulo with friends

Today, Javier Duarte de Ochoa, who has spent more than 180 days at large, is in a maximum security prison in Guatemala for crimes of illicit enrichment, organized crime and money laundering, all committed in Mexico.

While César Duarte Jáquez, is known, is in Texas, the United States, enjoying his freedom, although last March a judge turned an arrest warrant against him for embezzlement.

Borge Angulo is accused of at least six crimes committed during his administration. Four complaints have been filed in the Attorney General's Office (PGR) and two in the Attorney General's Office (FGE).

Among all crimes is the "illegal sale of public property, especially in the lands that are territorial reserve of the state of Quintana Roo."

The former president is credited with the ecocide committed in the Tajamar mangrove in Cancun for approving a real estate project that affected at least 57 hectares and which, thanks to the intervention of activists, was suspended.

Throughout his administration, Roberto Borge, who until last April had more than 200 escorts, sold 9,500 hectares of the Quintana Roo reserve.

In addition, it used dozens of prestanombres, most familiar and friendly. Before the PGR only 11 people were accused related to the purchase and sale of land at a price.

Roberto Borge Angulo received a total debt for 10 thousand 037 million pesos, and increased it by 123 percent by delivering it at 22 thousand 442 million pesos. Distributed among the million and a half of people who make up its population, each Quintana Roo should 14 thousand 946 pesos compared to the 7 thousand 571 pesos that was loaded on their backs in 2010.

Quintana Roo - the first in the list - appears as the state with the least public access to the breakdown of resources of dependencies and salaries of officials in the Index of State Budget Information (IIPE) that the IMCO.

Borge Angulo is related to plots of land to be delivered to real estate developers, have accused affected residents. In addition, although the project was suspended, it is also responsible for the destruction of 57 hectares of the mangrove swamp in Tajamar, in Cancún, including the ecocide that this implied.