AMLO publishes the millionaire debt to the treasury of the controversial magnate Salinas Pliego

The Mexican president, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, published this Wednesday the debt of more than 63,000 million pesos (almost US$ 3,347.6 million) that the controversial magnate Ricardo Salinas Pliego, owner of TV Azteca and the third richest man, has with the treasury. from the country.

The president announced in his morning conference that they will upload to a Government website “all the evidence and all the trials there are“about the debts of Salinas Pliego companies”so that citizens“may”with all the information have a criterion of what is happening”.

The head of the Tax Administration Service (SAT), Antonio Martínez, detailed that the companies of the Salinas Group owe more than 53,000 million pesos (US$ 3,151 million) for tax trials prior to López Obrador’s administration, which began in December 2018, and others in process.

This includes, he specified, an original amount of 38,000 million pesos (US$ 2,259.2 million) that had to be paid for 17 trials, which include seven cases of fiscal consolidation.

While the other 10,000 million pesos (almost US$ 594.5 million) correspond to credits issued in the current Administration, he indicated.

Although the president did not rule out an agreement, he said that now “The best thing is for the judges, the Judiciary, to resolve”.

The events represent a new clash between López Obrador and Salinas Pliego, the third richest man in Mexico, with a fortune estimated at US$10.9 billion, according to Forbes magazine.

Although the opposition accused López Obrador of being close to the businessman at the beginning of his administration over government contracts with Banco Azteca, the president and the magnate have exchanged criticism in the last year, particularly over the critical coverage of Tv Azteca, the second largest television station in Mexico, in campaigns.

The magnate, who promotes far-right ideas on his networks, published a video this Wednesday in which he accused the SAT of “extort businessmen“, I affirm that “around“by López Obrador”there are no honest people” and suggested without evidence that the Government steals money from social programs.

“How is it possible that they tell us that they are going to distribute 500,000 million pesos (US$ 26,567.48 million), an astronomical figure, among the old people of Mexico, but they are not accountable to us?”, he questioned.

This Wednesday, the president challenged the businessman to present evidence about extortion and “alleged mismanagement of welfare programs”.