They searched new property related to Julio Cesar Serna

The Attorney General's Office of Mexico City (FGJCDMX) announced a new search of a building possibly related to the former official close to Miguel Ángel Mancera, Julio César Serna Chavez, who is linked to prosecution for his alleged involvement in the crime of illicit enrichment.

According to the FGJCDMX statement, a search procedure was carried out at a home located in the Benito Juárez mayor's office, located in Narvarte Poniente.

The operation was carried out by ministerial agents of the Office of the Prosecutor for the Investigation of Crimes Committed by Public Servants, in coordination with detectives of the Investigative Police (PDI), members of the Special Reaction and Intervention Group (GERI) and experts from the General Coordination of Forensic Investigation and Expert Services.

The location of the building was made possible by the field and cabinet work carried out by investigative police officers who, after gathering sufficient evidence, the search warrant was requested and obtained from a judge. The condo is currently leased.

This is in addition to the searches of nine properties carried out earlier this year in Mexico City and in the state of Guerrero.

Serna Chavez served as General Coordinator of the Cabinet at the Mexico City Head of Government in September 2019 during Miguel Ángel Mancera's tenure in the country's capital and was one of his closest collaborators in the Democratic Revolution Party (PRD).

Later, he was director of administration of the Central de Abasto and was banned for a period of 10 years from exercising public service together with two other public servants for incurring irregularities, such as the illegal sale and allocation of warehouses in the Central.

He was finally arrested on Sunday, November 28, 2021 for the crime of illicit enrichment and was transferred to the North Men's Preventive Prison. In December of the same year he was linked to the process.

It is also related to two investigation kits: one for its probable participation in the commission of the crime of misuse of powers and powers committed by public servants, and the other initiated by its probable participation in the commission of the crime of damage to the property of others.

Among the properties searched at different times are seven in Mexico City and three in Guerrero. These searches were carried out between December 2021 and January 2022.

One was found in Magdalena Contreras, which corresponds to a house in a residential area south of the country's capital; another of the properties searched was an apartment in the Napoli neighborhood of the Benito Juárez mayor's office, and at the junction of Dakota and Altadena.

While in Acapulco, Guerrero: a penthouse of a condominium located in the Las Playas neighborhood; another property located in the Las Postitas neighborhood, and another one in a condominium apartment located in Cumbres de Llano Largo.

Later, at the end of January, they located three other buildings in the Alvaro Obregón mayor's office in the Florida neighborhood. Serna Chavez's bank accounts were frozen by the FGJ.

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