Pegasus: The FGR investigates Tomás Zerón for hiring a spy program during the six-year term of Peña Nieto

The Attorney General of the Republic (FGR) of Mexico reported this Monday that it maintains an investigation folder open for the contracting and acquisition of the espionage system, Pegasus in 2014, by the Criminal Investigation Agency directed by Tomás Zerón, accused of hiding evidence and torture witnesses in the Ayotzinapa case.

According to the FGR, this technology would have been acquired for use by the then Attorney General’s Office (PGR), headed by Jesús Murillo Karam, today in prison for his probable participation in the disappearance of the 43 Ayotzinapa students.

The folders include crimes of embezzlement, equated fraud, improper use of powers and powers, all of them against Zerón; Judith Aracely Gómez, former senior officer; Vidal Diazleal, former chief of the Federal Ministerial Police, and Rigoberto “G”, former director of Information on Criminal Activities, of the National Center for Planning, Analysis and Information to Combat Crime.

The FGR indicated that the amount of the illegal operation was 460 million pesos. In addition, he explained that it is “a system that this new Administration does not have; that the Attorney General’s Office has never used it, and that it was illegally acquired.”

The clarification comes amid accusations to the Army of an alleged secret espionage structure that uses the Pegasus software to interfere in investigations of abuses against activists who denounce human rights violations by the Armed Forces, in the investigation called “Spy Army” of the Network in Defense of Digital Rights, Article 19 and Social Tic.

The FGR also explained that through the Specialized Prosecutor for Internal Affairs (FEAI) it has requested the holding of the initial hearing up to three times before the Federal Criminal Justice Center of Mexico City, and awaits a response.

“This investigation is independent of the one already prosecuted by the FGR, due to various illegal interventions that Pegasus” carried out in the past administration and of which there are links to the process, which has been reported in a timely manner,” the FGR clarified. .

This morning, President Andrés Manuel López Obrador also referred to Tomás Zerón, since he asked the Government of Israel for his extradition, since he is also involved in the disappearance of the 43 normalistas from Ayotzinapa.

“I take this opportunity to ask the Prime Minister of Israel to comply with the commitment that they will extradite Tomás Zerón, who has been shown to have participated in the fabrication of crimes, of torture,” the President said during his press conference. morning.

JM