The contracts of the looting

National
Infested by the internal corruption
The contracts of the looting
By: Carlos Damián January 5, 2011
Pemex Refinement's corruption
México. - Infested by the internal corruption in Petroleos Mexicanos (PEMEX, in Spanish), their subsidiary PEMEX Refinacion (PR) it is being investigated by the indifference with which behaves their sub-director Bernardo de la Garza Hesles (BGH). According to documents, him and several of their collaborators they grant contracts to companies whose owners reward their favors later on and they deposit their “tithe “in a bank bill that manages Carlos Xavier Riquelme Cacho (CXRC), particular secretary of the official. And this way, while the corruption is embedded in the company property of the State, the refineries take place to dropper.

Still when he investigates it the Commission of energy of the Chamber of Deputies and the Superior Audit of the Federation (ASF) he has it in the aim for presumed traffic of influences, BGH, sub-director of PR, continues assigning direct contracts to the companies of its friends. The business also benefits officials of the subsidiary that directs Juan Jose Suarez Coppel. Among them CXRC, secretary of the own sub-director of PR; Miguel Tame Dominguez (MTD), director of PR, and the superintendents of refineries of the Madero and Cadereyta City, Eduardo Gaytan Moreno (EGM) and Rodolfo Castillo Bujaros, respectively.

They benefit from the contracts to the officials of Pemex
At the beginning of year it was detected that BGH and their boss MTD presumably they were of accomplices in the signature of a contract for 42 million dollars assigned without bid to the British multinational company KBC Advanced Technologies. (Process review 1812). in spite of the secret kept during several weeks, the information came out to it floats in January, 2011, when in the subsidiary PR it remembered to project a package of “urgent” contracts that, the directive assured, they would be granted in direct form. It was never known if there was justification this irregular bid.

From then on the Commission of Energy of the Chamber of Deputies began its inquests about those irregularities; up to now, however, it has not presented results. The same thing made the ASF, and in recent dates he/she was integrated a record circumstanced in the General Attorney's office of the Republic (PGR, in Spanish), around this case of corruption that implies the officials of PR. During Vicente Fox’s administration this subsidiary was wrapped in scandals by the assigned multimillionaire contracts the companies represented by Martha Sahagun's children, the former president cowboy's wife.

Refinery Francisco I. Madero on Tamaulipas
From September of 2010 the beneficiaries have been MTD, BGH, and some of their collaborators. They are them those that assign to the companies of their preference inflated contracts so that they execute works in the refinery Francisco I. Madero (FIM), located in the Madero City, Tamaulipas. Of the contracts an example would be the contract CO-RMAD-143/10 that BGH and collaborators granted last September 28 to the signature Constructions and Edificaciones Fenix, S. A. de C.V., for according to the specifications of the work, the restoration of the line of Transfer 54, by means of the change of supports, and pipe of 54 diameter, alignment, change of supports, maintenance and adjustment of the supports Grinell in the Mayan combined plant #3 of the refinery of FIM."

He cost of the work specified in the contract it was of 4666 thousand 666.11 dollars, more the tax to the added value. On the part of PR they signed the document Jesus Everardo Castaneda Vega, official of the Department of contracts, Jesus Guerrero Rodriguez, boss of the Department of Contracts, Servando Olvera Resendez, in charge of the office of the superintendence of Rehabilitations and Modifications, and engineer Jose Dolores Nunez, as well as contractor Alfredo Moral Vargas. On the other hand in November of 2010 BGH, it asked CXRC and EGM to interview with Carlos Murillo (CM) and EGM, manager and superintendent of the refinery FIM, respectively.

In the encounter, the particular secretary BGH asked its speakers to assign a contract to the company USA Technologies, S. A. of C. V. The instruction it was completed and the contract was registered under the number CORMAD-143/10. The time of duration: 28 days that they ran from November 4 to December 1 2010. The extraordinary of that petition is that a second similar contract was assigned to the one that the subsidiary signed September 28, previous with the company Constructions and Edificaciones Fenix, S. A. of C. V. The work concessional to the American company had as purpose the restoration of the line transfer P3215 of 54 of the H10002b toward the tower T-10006 (hole section) by means of the change of elbows and pipe of 54 diameter, alignment, support change, maintenance and adjustment of the supports Grinell, in the plant combined Mayan of the refinery FIM, in Madero City, Tamaulipas.

Pemex Refinement's corruption
The difference rests in that the one costs of the contract it was of a million dollars. Consulted sources assure that BGH also instructed CM and EGM so that they inflated the quantity to the triple 3 million dollars. In accordance with the workers' accusations of the refinery FIM. "Pipes that were given by the contractor still exist and that they remain kept in the warehouses of Pemex, since they were not required to carry out this works". Those maneuvers have yielded they millionaire earnings to BGH and their collaborators. A worker when being interviewed gave a series of documents in which there were states of bank bills and movements of money of CXRC that apparently correspond to the monthly payments carried out by the subsidiary from Pemex to the companies benefitted by BGH.

The bank bills that CXRC manages in Bancomer are 00743534730148368368 and in it frequent deposits are observed by 3 thousand 333.33 dollars monthly. January 11, 2010, in this it is found that 42 days after they concluded the works in the refinery, it seizes they deposited 3 thousand 333.33 dollars in that bill (it indexes 0001702). The following month, February 10 had a similar deposit (it indexes 0001745). Also the 19 and 28 of January and the 3 March, 2010 the benefitted managers deposited in each case 2 thousand 666.67 dollars; March 17 had another contribution of 3 thousand 333.33 dollars. The money placed in that bill overcomes the official's monthly wage that is of one thousand 721.15 dollars. While the refineries continue lowering the production the corruption inside Pemex it continues so much without control some the administrations of the PRI like those of the PAN, impel them, they overlap them, and it follows the impunity in Pemex Refinement's lands. (Proceso No. 1810, el expediente del crimen, p.p. 36 - 38, July 10, 2011).