Mexican Government Makes Public Intel on Tamaulipas Governor Cabeza de Vaca Facilitated by US Authorities

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In his daily brief to the media, Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) publicly shared a letter directed to the head of Mexico’s Financial Intelligence Unit (UIF) Santiago Nieto Castillo which said that the US Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) was formally investigating Tamaulipas Governor Francisco Javier Garcia Cabeza de Vaca in international money laundering network involving several companies and straw persons. 

As AMLO pointed out, the list comprises members of the Cabeza de Vaca clan as well as several businesses and companies we mentioned linked to the Governor’s family and cronies.

In total the list comprises 16 individuals and 18 businesses, but Mexican authorities must have a more complete list since yesterday Santiago Nieto announced in social media that he had ordered the freezing of assets belonging to 12 individuals and 25 companies.

Among the companies revealed we can find old businesses used for the monopolization of public resources such as Desarrolladora Cava SA de CV, Inmobiliaria RC SA de CV, Desarrolladora y Constructora CDEV SA de CV, Construcciones y Mantenimientos Roca SA de CV, Avalúos y Peritajes del Sur SA de CV, Flunky SA de CV and Perforaciones y Remodelaciones Entransito SA de CV.

There are others used for disguising the ownership of assets, such as Desarrollos Renovables Enerxiza SA de CV, apparently owned by Baltazar Higinio Reséndez Cantú but controlled in fact by Cabeza de Vaca himself for the control of El Cortijo.

Finally, there are some other companies which we were not aware of, including Bufete Jurídico Goat & Smith SC, Blue Limit Comercial SA de CV or British English Olimpics SA de CV.

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