The oil companies Opex, Mind-I Y Perfomexwhich were created at the end of 2018 and belong to the Miguel Bejos family, very close to the former president Enrique Pena Nietohave received contracts for 18 billion pesos during the management from Andres Manuel Lopez Obradorrevealed an investigation by Mexicans Against Corruption and Impunity (MCCI).
The first of them, Opex Perforadora SA de CV, obtained its registration with the Tax Administration Service (SAT) on November 28, 2018.
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“Between 2020 and 2022, Opex has received payments from Pemex for 11 thousand 176 million pesos, according to official information released by the director of PemexOctavio Romero Oropeza”, assures the investigation.
The company Akal-I, a subsidiary of Opex, established on August 20, 2019, has received payments from Pemex for 5,938 million pesos between 2020 and 2022.
“While Perforaciones Estratégicas e Integrales Mexicana SA de CV (Perfomex), linked to both Mind-I like Opexwas created on March 26, 2019 – three months after the start of the six-year term – and in its first year it obtained a contract for 776 million pesos,” it reads.
These three companies have received, together, 17 thousand 890 million pesos in three years and are located in the list of the largest contractors of Pemex.
“Even above Baker Hughesand other companies with a long history such as the Italian energy multinational Eni and the American Weatherford”, they indicate.
On several occasions, Lopez Obrador In his morning conference he has referred to businessmen as accomplices of the “mafia of power” and has criticized their intention to accumulate wealth, assuring that said action can be considered a “social sin”.
Despite these statements and their closeness to Peña Nieto, the family Miguel Bejos still in government Obradoreven in his representative works, such as the Mayan Train.
Octavio Romero Oropezadirector of Pemexassured last Wednesday that there were no favorite companies or close to the López Obrador government, but included Opex and Akal-I in the statistics of the majors contractors from parastatal.
In the legal documents Opex, Akal-I y Perfomex Its shareholders include the company Operadora, Productora, Exploradora Mexicana SA de CV and Borr México Ventures Limited, a company that was registered on March 21, 2019 in the Scottish Companies Registry, in the United Kingdom, according to MCCI inquiries.
“Alfredo Miguel Bejos Y Alejandro Garcia Bejos they are representatives of the three companies and have formed part of the presidency of the board of directors as president and alternate president”, highlights MCCI
Jose Miguel Bejos is president of Mota Engil, one of the companies in the consortium that won the concession to build the first section of the Maya Trendresearch reveals.
The family Miguel rented in July 2015 the transition house to Enrique Pena Nieto and obtained millionaire contracts during his administration, according to data revealed by Univisión.
“The journalistic report mentioned that, in the first three years of the Peña government, the Compañía Inversora Corporativa, a holding company managed by sons and nephews of Alfredo Miguel Afifwon awards for 770 million dollars, mainly in the rental of helicopters and airplanes to Pemex when that oil company was directed by Emilio Lozoya”, says the investigation.