Two Mexican Businessmen Charged in U.S. Bribery Case Tied to Mexican State Oil Firm Pemex

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President Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo asked for information from Petróleos Mexicanos (Pemex) – and said she will also request it from U.S. authorities – to check whether there were contracts between the state company and the two Mexican businessmen to whom the neighboring country's Department of Justice accuses of bribing oil officials.

energy21.com.mx

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President Claudia Sheinbaum said she will request information from Petróleos Mexicanos (PEMEX) about the case of two businessmen who were accused in the United States of bribing oil officials. “We are going to ask PEMEX for information because they allegedly say there was something in the 2021 period. So, obviously, we have to look for information to see if there was any contract related to these people,” she said. The head of the federal execut…

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The company Roma Energy Holdings, led by Alexandro Rovirosa, named in the United States for obtaining contracts through bribes, participated through its subsidiary Roma Energy Mexico in the Oil Round 3.1, in 2016, during the government of Enrique Peña Nieto.In that year, the company named won a license contract for a period of 25 years in an area of 17 square kilometers in Paraíso, Tabasco.TE MAY INTEREST: Devasta to Coahuila the closing of AHMS…

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The United States revealed that during the 2019 and 2021 administrations, businessmen bribed #Pemex to obtain multi-million-dollar contracts. Faced with this accusation, the National Palace said they would ask Mexican oil companies, what happened?

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The U.S. Department of Justice has uncovered an alleged network of high-level bribes within Mexican Petroleum (Pemex), formally accusing two Mexican businessmen of orchestrating a corruption scheme to obtain and retain million-dollar contracts. The indictment, revealed on Monday, August 11, in Texas, details the use of luxury goods and cash to corrupt officials.