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The Office of the Attorney General of Mexico opens the investigation into an alleged bribe to former President Enrique Peña Nieto in the case of the Israeli spy software Pegasus. teleSUR

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00:00Mexico's Attorney General's Office begins the investigation into an alleged bribe to

00:04former President Enrique Peña Nieto in the case of the Israeli spy software Pegasus.

00:10The Attorney General, Alejandro Gertz Manero, informed that a formal investigation has been

00:15opened against Peña Nieto for an alleged bribe of $25 million related to the operation

00:21of the Pegasus espionage software during his government.

00:24In addition, he pointed out that all the information about the alleged money delivery will be

00:29requested to Israel as part of the International Cooperation Agreement in Legal Matters.

00:35The indictment against Nieto states that Pegasus was sold to several Mexican institutions,

00:40among them the former Attorney General's Office, the Ministry of National Defense, the now defunct

00:46Center for Research and National Security.

00:49President Enrique Peña Nieto.

00:55Effectively, since the beginning of the previous administration there have been allegations

01:03that have not been corroborated with sufficient evidence.

01:07In this new case we have specific, clear and very precise reports of relations with companies

01:14that sold Pegasus.

01:20Even the former President had already given an answer.

01:24Of course we have already opened a file, and we are going to ask the Israeli authorities,

01:30that this information they provided on social media be included in our files so that we can move forward.

01:41Our relationship with these authorities has not been easy.

01:45We have had many problems that practically came up since what happened in Ayotzinapa,

01:52and we have cases of people detained there for several years.

01:56I hope that in this case we have a faster response.

02:02In her daily morning press conference, Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum said Tuesday that

02:07her government will not protect anyone involved in the fuel theft which is being investigated

02:12by authorities.

02:16We will go as far as the investigations go, as far as they go.

02:22We are not going to protect anyone, anyone.

02:28Even if there are public servants involved, or rather, public officials involved.

02:34Or entrepreneurs involved.

02:36We must have proofs.

02:38But we have to eradicate completely this crime.

02:44We made progress during the government of President Manuel Lopez Obrador.

02:48But there are still things.

02:50We are going to work on them.

02:53We are working with a lot of discretion and unity to continue the investigation with the

02:57information that is being generated.

03:00We are working with a lot of discretion.

Mexico | Investigation into alleged bribery of former Pres. Peña Nieto begins

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