MCCI: former official of Carlos Salinas de Gortari was the manager of Juan Collado for banking procedures in Andorra
Juan Collado has established himself as one of the most controversial characters in recent years due to his links with great figures of Mexican politics such as Carlos Salinas de Gortari Y Enrique Pena Nietowho in due time touched as presidents of Mexico for the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI).
However, since 2019 the well-known lawyer was abandoned to his fate and is prisoner in the north jailand from Mexico City being accused of orchestral operations with resources of illicit origin and it seems like a fraud, therefore, Juan Collado is getting more and more distant from his freedom.
Recently, a Spanish-language media outlet published a report in which it was noted that, despite the fact that the friend of former President Enrique Peña Nieto has been deprived of his liberty since June 19, 2019, he had no impediment to buy a super luxury apartment in the heart of Madrid, the capital of Spain.
Said precedent was enough to revive the controversy that has been surrounding the renowned lawyer for years and, under that tenor, Mexicans Against Corruption and Impunity (MCCI) evoked one of its investigations in which An accomplice of Juan Collado was discovered who acted as his representative in the management of a bank account in Andorra.
According to what was stated by the civil organization, it was a former government official Carlos Salinas de Gortari who intervened as a bridge to hide the transfers to other accounts whose recipients are unknown.
It was in 2021 that Mexicans Against Corruption and Impunity (MCCI) consulted a report from the Andorran police where a Investigation against Juan Collado for money laundering. In said document, the lawyer was accused of having moved 120 million dollars in the banking system of that European country between 2006 and 2015.
For its part, the Attorney General’s Office (FGR) issued an accusation in 2019 where it is mentioned that JJuan Collado acted as front man for his friend and former PRI president, Enrique Pena Nietoin the acquisition and management of the company Libertad Servicios Financeros -better known as Caja Libertad- and that from there the resources went to Andorra in tax evasion and money laundering operations.
In the Andorran police report consulted by the civil association, it was stated that Juan Collado took out a network of front companies and resorted to the simulation of the sale of securities to hide his financial operations in the European country.
This is how I was able to identify Jaime Jesus Sanchez Montemayor -ex-official of the government of Carlos Salinas de Gortari- as the representative of Juan Collado in an account created in the private bank of Andorra, which served as a bridge to transfer resources to other accounts.
Mexicans Against Corruption and Impunity (MCCI) confirmed that Jaime Sánchez Montemayor and Juan Collado were partners in different businesses as in the real estate Eje Bosque Real and, of course, in the Caja Libertad where the former official was a member of the Board of Directors.
Jaime Sánchez Montemayor worked during the administration of Carlos Salinas de Gortari as director of Miltibanco Mercantil de México, an institution that was privatized in 1991. Similarly, the former official had been one of the closest collaborators of Isidoro Rodríguez -better known as “The Divine”- a banker who was imprisoned accused of a multimillion-dollar fraud in the Asemex-Banpaís financial group.
The Andorran police document consulted by Mexicans Against Corruption and Impunity (MCCI) details Juan Collado’s way of operating to hide the flow of resources he received in the European country through transfers in your favor in different currencies.
According to the report, as representatives of the account appeared Cristina Lozano Bonet -directive of the Banca Provada de Andorra and Joan Marc Masson Blanchwho served as manager of the branch in Mexico and was responsible for attracting clients with great purchasing power in the country.
The account had a third representative who was precisely the partner and friend of Juan Collado, Jaime Jesus Sanchez Montemayorwhom the police report describes as “the trusted person” of the recognized lawyer.
Also, the police report told Juan Ramón Collado Mocelo as the last beneficiary and beneficiary of the funds that nourished said account.
“That account was opened under the ownership of the Andorran trading firm Zap Estudios SLU, whose administrator and representative is the Andorran company Especialistes Legals I Taxes Sandal, SLU, managed by Cristina Lozano Bonet”, is detailed in the document consulted by Mexicans Against Corruption and Impunity (MCCI).
said account its main operation was to serve as a bridge between other accounts of the beneficiaryThe economic sense of the transactions is unknown.
“The circuit begins with a securities sales simulation from a source account,” explains the police report. In the same way, the account simulated the purchase of the same titles, although in reality it was a transfer of securities, the civil organization pointed out.
The transfers involved shell companies from different countries, such as Team Faith International Limited, from Hong Kong, which transferred 9 million dollars; the Dutch Constellation Investments, Diamond Corporation, Marathon Corporation and Kayser Investments, as well as the Mexican company Distribuidora Comercial Franwi, which the Tax Administration Service has verified that it simulated operations since 2014 for tax evasion fines, as confirmed and exposed by Mexicanos Contra la Corruption and Impunity (MCCI).
Mexicans Against Corruption and Impunity (MCCI) maintained that since 2016, the Andorran justice authorities had requested the collaboration of the government of former President Enrique Peña Nieto to investigate the participation of Mexicans in possible money laundering through the private banking of the European country.
On that occasion Andorra sent four requests for collaboration and in 2018 another twoall addressed to the Legal and International Affairs Deputy Attorney General’s Office, which was in charge of Alberto Elías Beltrán.
Documents obtained by the civil association confirmed that the collaboration requests as a whole totaled more than 700 pages that found indications of suspicious bank transfers made by Mexicans in private banking in Andorra.
It was on July 16, 2018 that the coordinator of the Deputy Attorney General’s Office, Alberto Manuel Alcántara Martínez, reported that Andorra had submitted six requests for information between 2016 and 2018, among which the case of Juan Collado was found and that of an official from Michoacán pointed out that he had received bribes in the Odebrecht case.
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