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DD; Borderland Beat has published numerous stories about the alleged corruption of former Governor Humberto Moreira of Coahuila. The story that is hyper-linked above is one that Chivis wrote several years ago but is well worth reading. I have included a video immediately after the MWD story that was sent to Chivis and a text translation by Chivis following the video. If you want to read more BB stories on Moreira just type his name in the search box at the bottom right of this page.
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New testimony has surfaced linking former Coahuila governor Humberto Moreira to the Zetas drug gang.
An unnamed high-ranking member of the criminal organization told officials from the Attorney General’s office last September that Moreira directly collaborated with the gang during his term as governor, according to information obtained by the newspaper Reforma.
“Governor Humberto Moreira allowed us to set up over 400 tienditas [small convenience stores] to sell drugs and alcohol in Saltillo and its surrounding areas [as well as] 240 in Piedras Negras, 100 in Acuña and 80 in the Cinco Manantiales region,” said the informant, who is being held at the Altiplano maximum security penitentiary.
“In return, [Moreira] received US $2 million dollars per month.”
“We set up round tables with the governor and Juan Manuel Muñoz Luévano, whose function was liaison between the governor and business people,” continued the witness.
Those meetings were attended by “business people, ranch owners and politicians, like senators.”
“The arrangement was: we protected them and we murdered, kidnapped, stole and extorted people they singled out. In exchange, we had the freedom to carry on with our activities throughout the state.”
The fallout between Moreira and Los Zetas happened after the nephew of gang leader Miguel Ángel “Z-40” Treviño Morales was killed in a confrontation with state forces.
Allegedly in retaliation, Moreira’s son José Eduardo was executed.
An unnamed high-ranking member of the criminal organization told officials from the Attorney General’s office last September that Moreira directly collaborated with the gang during his term as governor, according to information obtained by the newspaper Reforma.
“Governor Humberto Moreira allowed us to set up over 400 tienditas [small convenience stores] to sell drugs and alcohol in Saltillo and its surrounding areas [as well as] 240 in Piedras Negras, 100 in Acuña and 80 in the Cinco Manantiales region,” said the informant, who is being held at the Altiplano maximum security penitentiary.
“In return, [Moreira] received US $2 million dollars per month.”
“We set up round tables with the governor and Juan Manuel Muñoz Luévano, whose function was liaison between the governor and business people,” continued the witness.
Those meetings were attended by “business people, ranch owners and politicians, like senators.”
“The arrangement was: we protected them and we murdered, kidnapped, stole and extorted people they singled out. In exchange, we had the freedom to carry on with our activities throughout the state.”
The fallout between Moreira and Los Zetas happened after the nephew of gang leader Miguel Ángel “Z-40” Treviño Morales was killed in a confrontation with state forces.
Allegedly in retaliation, Moreira’s son José Eduardo was executed.
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“We cut all communication with the governor, but we still dealt with Muñoz [also known as “El Mono” Muñoz]. He recently sent me a message telling me to remain quiet about all I know,” said the PGR’s witness.
“But that bastard has no right to order me around, he’s nobody and he’s in no position to ask anything from me. He well knows that when I speak, his and the heads of many assholes will roll,” he declared.
There have been allegations that Muñoz Luévano, singled out as a Zeta liaison, was a close collaborator with Moreira while he was governor, and has been linked to several other politicians and government officials.
He was apprehended last March in Spain on suspicion of being a representative of Los Zetas in Europe and is about to be extradited to the United States, where he faces drug trafficking charges. His extradition was approved yesterday.
Moreira is currently seeking to run again for public office, this time as a state Deputy. Opposition party members have suggested he is doing so in order to obtain a fuero, which grants immunity from prosecution to government officials.
As governor he ran up a huge state debt before resigning to become national president of the Institutional Revolutionary Party. He resigned that office after news of the state’s debt surfaced.
A former Zetas member linked Moreira to the gang while giving testimony last summer in Texas at the trial of Marciano Millán Vázquez, one-time Piedras Negras plaza chief.
“But that bastard has no right to order me around, he’s nobody and he’s in no position to ask anything from me. He well knows that when I speak, his and the heads of many assholes will roll,” he declared.
There have been allegations that Muñoz Luévano, singled out as a Zeta liaison, was a close collaborator with Moreira while he was governor, and has been linked to several other politicians and government officials.
He was apprehended last March in Spain on suspicion of being a representative of Los Zetas in Europe and is about to be extradited to the United States, where he faces drug trafficking charges. His extradition was approved yesterday.
Moreira is currently seeking to run again for public office, this time as a state Deputy. Opposition party members have suggested he is doing so in order to obtain a fuero, which grants immunity from prosecution to government officials.
As governor he ran up a huge state debt before resigning to become national president of the Institutional Revolutionary Party. He resigned that office after news of the state’s debt surfaced.
A former Zetas member linked Moreira to the gang while giving testimony last summer in Texas at the trial of Marciano Millán Vázquez, one-time Piedras Negras plaza chief.
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English translation of video:
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In the State of Coahuila, behind the face of what is supposed to be a social government that helps people
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is a well-armed criminal net of corruption, shadowy businesses and influence peddling; by Humberto and Ruben Moreira, their relatives and unconditional friends.
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Thanks to a very serious investigational work, secretly obtained several months ago, it has been discovered the tentacles that form the corruption net, that is headed by Humberto and Ruben Moreira, through front men - ( Prestanombres 0:30) that cover and hide sources of illicit enrichment
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It is a casualty that the government of Coahuila is in debt for around 20 thousand million pesos.
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Much of this money was derived from the honest effort of the people of Coahuila.
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The reality is that it has been blatantly destined to enlarge the personal fortune of the Moreira Family and their unconditional friends. These are some of the unconditional friends and partners of the brothers Humberto and Ruben Moreira:
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Javier Villarreal Hernandez: Former secretary of finances and actual head of the SATEC (Tributary Administrative System of the State of Coahuila) He is an employee of the Moreira’s.
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From his strategic position inside the government of Coahuila, he has become the head of the financial operations of the Moreira net.
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Javier Villarreal Hernandez has been very careful that his name doesn’t appear in these transactions.
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He does everything in the name of Francisco Javier Flores Valdes, supposedly the nephew of the Moreira brothers and husband of his subordinate Anabell Torres Leza
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Lorenzo Schuessler Reyes, his wife’s brother in law; Aurora Villarreal Hernandez,
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his sister and his father, Hector Javier Villarreal Garcia (continues next page)
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Who have under their names, ownership of gas stations, car washes and expensive real estate.
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Vicente Chairez Yañez: Former Secretary of administration of the State and current Finance Secretary of the Directive Committee of CEN of PRI.
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He is the main operator and protector of Humberto and Ruben Moreira’s interests, as well as for their family.
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Vicente Chairez Yañez
is a dangerous man that enjoys of the trust, Humberto Moreira, has granted him. He is his lieutenant in dirty businesses and operations with abusing authority and police force use in Coahuila.
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Vicente Chairez Yañez is the direct link of all the corruption net
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With Ruben Flores, a questionable attorney of San Antonio, Texas, that according to the proof obtained, he is who is in charge to legitimize and sanitize the operations of the Moreira net in the foreign country. (US)
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He is also the personal front man of Humberto Moreira in construction enterprises
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and real estate in the city of San Antonio, Texas, such as
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Transnational Construction and Real Estate Co, LLC,
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Procon Marketing, LLC and
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VICAP Global Investments LLC, among others.
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Among the properties, and enterprises that appear under the name Vicente Chairez Yañez
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include a mansion in Bexar County in San Antonio, Texas with a contractual value of more than 700 thousand dollars,
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equivalent to approximately 10 million pesos.
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attention is drawn to the fact that Vicente Chairez and Roberto Casimiro Gonzalez,
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owner of the powerful communication media group RCG of Coahuila and one of the principal
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partners and benefactor of the Moreira’s , creating operations out of the country
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as front men of Humberto Moreira , Vicente’s wife’s brother in law is Arnoldo Rivas Duron.
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On September 16th, 2009, Vicente Chairez suspiciously, through a questionable transaction became the owner of channel 22 of Piedras Negras,
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previously it was as part of the RCG group and owned by Roberto Gonzalez another front man for Moreira,
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furthermore as the enterprise Radio Communication of Saltillo S.A de C.V., that was obtained through Super Medios of Coahuila S.A de C.V. in October of 2009.
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Oscar Moreira Flores, uncle of Humberto and Ruben Moreira is the brother of their father:
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In 2009, the newspapers El Norte and El Siglo de Torreon
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exposed his dirty businesses with a value of over 50 million pesos.
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Francisco Xavier Flores Valdes: the nephew of the Moreira brothers and husband of Anabell Torres Leza,
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former secretary of Programming and Budget of the State of Coahuila.
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Francisco Xavier Flores Valdes amassed an unimaginable fortune for his 26 years of age,
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thanks to his unconditional relationship to the Moreira Family.
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Numerous signs and evidence place him as one of the principal front men inside the corruption net of the Moreira’s. He is owner, majority shareholder or stockholder of the enterprises and properties that the net possesses in Saltillo. It is estimated that altogether,
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These businesses have a value that exceed
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1000 million pesos.
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His enterprises are favored directly through his wife, Anabell Torres Leza, former secretary of Planning and Budget of the Government of Coahuila or through third parties with acquisitions and millionaire contracts by the State of Coahuila in an illegal covert method.
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Some of these enterprises are JP Incorporated S.A de C.V.,
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Grupo Inmobiliario e Infraestructura Los Alpes S.A de C.V. (real estate corporation),
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Business Storage Corporation S.A de C.V.
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Servicio El Toreo S. A. de C.V.
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and a ranch named Los Mimbres, near Parras, Coahuila.
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One of the multiple procurements of Javier Villarreal Hernandez, and operated by Francisco Xavier Flores Valdes, was the acquisition by the State Government through the Secretariat of Finance,
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of the offices of the Governmental storage center in Arteaga Coahuila. This property was deviously purchased
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by the business Storage Corporation S.A de C.V., under the mane of Marco Antonio Martinez Saucedo and Francisco Xavier Flores Gonzalez, partner and father of Francisco Xavier Flores Valdez. The property was acquired with
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15 million 500 thousand pesos, to be sold just 23 days after the purchase in 68 million 400 thousand pesos, 4 times more than the original price.
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Lorenzo Schuessler Reyes: Javier Villarreal wife’s brother in law and front man. He is the head of the Tributary Administrative System of the State of Coahuila (SATEC)
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and the principal operator and front man of Javier Villarreal Hernandez in the purchase of properties and business openings in the state of Texas. The participation of Schuessler Reyes in the Moreira net
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consists in acquisitions of properties in different cities of the state of Texas under the name of Schuessler enterprises.
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Some of the enterprises under Lorenzo Schuessler Reyes’ name, within a very long list, include
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MPV Family Partnership, LLC, Peninsula South Padre 1, LLC, Aero Premio, LLC, Alpes Group, LLC, Barcelona at Stone Oak, LLC, Villa Premio Gas, LLC and IXE Systems, LLC.
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Additionally, several properties are registered in the Public Records of Texas, under the names of Lorenzo Schuessler Reyes, and/or his wife Itzel Rotelo of Schuessler, sister in law of Javier Villarreal Hernandez.
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Ruben Flores Jr., lawyer of San Antonio, Texas: His law firm is in charge of giving legal representation for the multiple commercial, financial and property transactions that the Moreira net create in the foreign country.
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The law firm, The Flores Group, specialized in International Corporative Rights, Tax and Migration Services operating for the Moreira net, and the transactions and operations in the foreign country. The address of The Flores group is 7272 Wurzbach Road Suite 901, San Antonio, Texas.
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Rodolfo Camara Ahuja, representative of the Government of Coahuila in McAllen, Texas.
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Multiple properties of the Moreira in the foreign country are registered under his name.
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In addition to all this net of corruption, illicit businesses and influence peddling, through front men of Humberto and Ruben Moreira, exists strong evidence that with no doubt show how members of Moreira Valdez Family have acquired
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numerous properties and buildings in the city of Saltillo, Coahuila, so blatantly, that without shame they are acquired under their names
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as the compound that Humberto Moreira possesses in San Antonio, Texas under the name of his mother in law, Herminia Martinez de la Fuente, with swimming pool, spa and 5 spacious bedrooms with a value of more than 1 million dollars.
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This is just a part of the criminal corruption net that head Humberto and Ruben Moreira, and is what they plan to continue doing in Coahuila with Ruben Moreira as Governor.