{"id":119492,"date":"2021-04-20T12:12:57","date_gmt":"2021-04-20T04:12:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=119492"},"modified":"2021-04-20T12:12:58","modified_gmt":"2021-04-20T04:12:58","slug":"mexican-tycoon-in-graft-case-released-after-agreeing-to-repayment-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=119492","title":{"rendered":"Mexican tycoon in graft case released after agreeing to repayment deal"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bssnews.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Alonso-Ancira-the-former-head-of-steel-giant-Altos-Hornos-de-Mexico-2.jpg\"><img src=\"http:\/\/www.bssnews.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Alonso-Ancira-the-former-head-of-steel-giant-Altos-Hornos-de-Mexico-2.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>MEXICO CITY, April 20 (NNN-AGENCIES) &#8212; A Mexican businessman accused of corruption over the alleged sale of a disused fertilizer plant to Pemex was released from prison Monday after agreeing to repay the state oil company $216.6 million, judicial sources said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Alonso Ancira, the former head of steel giant Altos Hornos de Mexico, is accused of selling the plant to Pemex for $200 million in 2012.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He left Mexico City jail without making any statements to the press.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Hours earlier, a judge had suspended the proceedings against him after he signed a reparation agreement, to be made in three payments by 2023, a source from the Federal Judiciary Council told reporters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ancira was arrested in May 2019 on the island of Mallorca and extradited to Mexico from Spain in February.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Another key figure in the case, former Pemex chief executive Emilio Lozoya, was also returned by Spain to Mexico.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Lozoya, who led Pemex from 2012 to 2016 and was previously a top advisor to ex-president Enrique Pena Nieto, is accused of authorizing the purchase of the rundown plant for a suspiciously high price.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The former oil executive, who is also accused of accepting millions of dollars of bribes from Brazilian construction giant Odebrecht, has implicated several ex-presidents including Pena Nieto during his trial.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Lozoya, who has been given the status of cooperating witness, alleges that Odebrecht bribes were funneled to Pena Nieto\u2019s presidential campaign.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, a left-wing populist who replaced Pena Nieto in 2018 vowing to tackle deep-rooted political graft, has called for a referendum on whether to prosecute his predecessors. &#8212; NNN-AGENCIES<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MEXICO CITY, April 20 (NNN-AGENCIES) &#8212; A Mexican businessman accused of corruption over the alleged sale of a disused fertilizer plant to Pemex was released from prison Monday after agreeing to repay the state oil company $216.6 million, judicial sources said. Alonso Ancira, the former head of steel giant Altos Hornos de Mexico, is accused [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":119493,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[208],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119492"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=119492"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119492\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/119493"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=119492"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=119492"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=119492"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}