INE contract scheme revealed by Mexico’s anticorruption secretary, Digi Mart USA News (Mexico): Raquel Buenrostro, secretary of Anticorruption and Good Government, presented an alleged fraudulent scheme managed from the National Electoral Institute (INE) to award multimillion-peso contracts to companies, during the morning press conference. The scandal ultimately led to the resignation of former INE president Guadalupe Taddei.
According to the official, the mechanism began with the Hernández Casillas brothers, who worked at the National Registry of Population and Personal Identification of the Secretariat of Government in the 1980s. During this period, José Alfredo served as private secretary to Juan Carlos Padilla Aguilar, director general of the Registry and a figure linked to the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) in the State of Mexico.
By 1987, Raymundo had joined the Financial and Material Resources area. In 1988, the company Cartonera Plástica was established.
Juan Carlos Padilla was later appointed secretary of Urban Development and Public Works in the State of Mexico, under Governor Ignacio Pichardo Pagaza, in 1989.
Four decades later, Juan Carlos Padilla Aguilar coincides in the SOMOS party with INE figures: Marco Antonio Baños, the party’s alternate representative before the INE; Edmundo Jacobo Molina, head of the Center for Political Training and Professionalization; and Lorenzo Córdoba, a member of its Citizen Advisory Council.
In 1992, the Casillas brothers became businessmen and began participating in contracting as electoral-materials suppliers in the State of Mexico. In 2005, Cartonera Plástica received a contract worth 63.7 million pesos to supply electoral materials, a scandal that ended with the resignation of seven electoral councilors.
Information is still developing.
