The Attorney General’s Office (FGR) reported that it obtained a conviction in an abbreviated proceeding against Mario Alberto Cerbera López, a judge in the state of Nayarit, for his responsibility in the crime committed by a public servant who submitted false reports in amparo proceedings.
According to the statement, the judge submitted false reports to District judges in Nayarit, Chihuahua, and Sinaloa, denying that the facts reported by the victims were true.
“Furthermore, the defendants in various Special Mortgage Trials were different people than the complainants.”
The Specialized Prosecutor’s Office for Regional Control (FECOR), through the Federal Public Prosecutor’s Office attached to the Special Prosecutor’s Office for Investigation and Litigation of Complex Cases (FEILC), presented the evidence that supported the conviction.
As a sanction, the judge was sentenced to prison and disqualification for three years, 11 months, and five days, in addition to a fine, financial security, and suspension of his civil and political rights.
The case of Judge Mario Alberto Cevera López is part of the notorious Infonavit Megafraud. Between 2013 and 2018, judges, local magistrates, and collection agencies participated in simulated trials that led to the dispossession of homes from around 62,000 beneficiaries in several states, including Nayarit, Chihuahua, Sinaloa, and Tamaulipas.
Of these, only 737 beneficiaries were originally from Nayarit, while the majority had their homes in other states, such as Chihuahua (17,700), Tamaulipas (16,500), and Nuevo León (6,200), among others, according to data from Infonavit and the Attorney General’s Office and the Attorney General’s Office of Nayarit.
In Nayarit, two judges were convicted, including the former president of the local Judiciary. Following an abbreviated proceeding, they were released after paying five million pesos each in reparation for damages.
On October 10, 2013, the then head of the Judiciary, Pedro Antonio Enríquez Soto, signed a procedural economy agreement with Infonavit for the recovery of overdue loans. This resulted in thousands of fictitious lawsuits in mixed courts in small municipalities in Nayarit, against workers from the same state, Sinaloa, Chihuahua, and others.
The investigations also revealed that Infonavit hired law firms to judicially repossess homes, paying more than 3.6 billion pesos to four of them, a practice that has been suspended under recent administrations.
In June 2014, Filiberto Villalobos lost his home in Nayarit through special foreclosure proceeding 297/2014, but he was never notified, along with 25,000 people listed in the 221-volume file.
In that special trial, they concentrated all the notifications on a single address in Compostela. When they didn’t respond, the authorities declared them in contempt of court on June 16, and from that date on, the removal and auction of the homes began.
Source: aristeguinoticias
