Lilly Tellez asked the SFP to investigate René Sánchez, husband of Garcia Vilchis

Lilly Tellez, senator for the National Action Party (PAN), submitted an appeal to the Ministry of Public Service (SFP) to investigate the assets of René Sánchez Galindo, a consultant to the Legal Counsel of the federal executive, as well as the review of his declaration of interest, and, in case that irregularities are found, be punished.

So this Wednesday, March 30, the secretary of the Jurisdictional Commission of the Senate of the Republic shared on her social networks the point of agreement that emanated from the federal legislature for the Secretary of State.

In the considerations of the point of agreement, the PAN senator gave as a precedent a journalistic column in which they point to a capital increase of 10.6 million pesos in 2017, something unusual compared to the rest of the assets she owned. This is because in the official's 2021 patrimonial return this increase is seen divided into two properties.

According to the statement of assets, Sánchez Galindo served as a public official in Puebla as political advisor to different officials and, between 2005 and 2017, he acquired seven buildings for an amount of 18 million 480 thousand 560 pesos (approximately USD 920 thousand), which is inconsistent with his salary as public servant; however, the declaration specifies that of the seven buildings, five were donations and the two that he paid total 4 million 140 thousand 940 pesos (USD 205 thousand).

In this way, the secretariat headed by Roberto Salcedo Aquino would have to validate, in case of acceding to the warrant, the correspondence of René Sánchez's income with the properties he purchased via Buy/Sell and, at the same time, verify that the donations are legitimate.

This is because the former news anchor questioned the origin of the properties and also stressed that other goods such as vehicles or furniture are not reported. “While it is true that some have been through donation, this is not clear. Nor is it credible that it does not have, let alone vehicles, but with any kind of movable property or, in your case, it is perhaps more feasible to think that you omitted to report them,” he said in the exhortation.

The media relevance of this exhortation takes on another dimension in the sense that René Sánchez Galindo is the husband of Ana Elizabeth García Vilchis, who is in charge of the section “Who is who in the lies of the week” during the morning conferences of President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO), something that has not been well seen by the PAN or by some media outlets that are often named in the segment dedicated to pointing out false news, exaggerations or fragmented truths every Wednesday morning.

Another fact to highlight is that, thanks to the work of René Sánchez, the agenda against transgenic maize has been achieved in Mexico, which represents a blow to the agribusiness that benefited from it at the expense of small and medium-sized producers who, generally, belong to the most disadvantaged social sectors of the republic.

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