After recalling that Vitol admitted the crime before the United States justice, the leftist president said that company delegates told the Mexican government that “they were willing to return the money from the operations that had been carried out.”
But “The instruction I gave is that we do not accept anything until we know who had received those bribes”added López Obrador, who has made the fight against corruption his flag, in his morning press conference.
Mexico will not accept “any deal with that company because they were giving us the money, but the suspicion of who had received the bribe would remain and we would also remain as accessories,” he explained.
López Obrador, in power since 2018, did not detail the amounts of the bribes or the compensation offered by Vitol, indicating that the government will report those details later. According to press reports, the bribes were given between 2015 and 2020.
The leftist president assured that the government’s intention is to set an “example” that these crimes are not erased by “just returning the money.” “We don’t want relationships with corrupt foreign companies,” he said.
The Vitol company acknowledged in the United States that it paid bribes to obtain contracts with Pemex, as well as with companies from Brazil Y Ecuadorfor which the Mexican oil company canceled agreements that the largest independent energy marketer in the world had.
Source: Ambito
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