Pemex anti-corruption commission to meet with attorney general
The commission investigating contracts signed by state-run Pemex and its subsidiaries since 2006 will meet with Mexico's attorney general to share the findings of its corruption probe.
Commission head Luis Ángel Xariel Espinosa Cházaro, a lawmaker from opposition PRD party, said a meeting with attorney general Jesús Murillo Karam should be scheduled as soon as possible, given the "magnitude and relevance of the issue."
Espinosa Cházaro added he had been alerted to other allegations in recent days, a press release issued by Mexico's congress said.
"We cannot legislate with this precedent of corruption in Pemex," said Espinosa Cházaro in a congressional press release, alluding to the energy reform's secondary legislation currently being debated in congress.
Several companies that have signed contracts with Pemex have recently been involved in corruption probes.
In February, Banamex discovered that it had provided US$400mn in credit to oil services firm Oceanografía based on allegedly falsified contracts with Pemex, while two other Mexican firms have since been implicated.
New York-based bank Citigroup fired four senior Banamex executives and seven other employees in May, and the unit was being investigated by the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) as well as the FBI.
In April, the SEC alleged that Hewlett-Packard paid US$1.4mn in bribes to Mexican officials for contracts with Pemex. The US IT firm's Mexican subsidiary "made improper payments" to a third party in exchange for software deals with Pemex, the SEC said.
This month, Pemex announced it was conducting an audit of oil services firm Key Energy Services to determine whether the Texas-based company engaged in corrupt practices in Mexico.
Key Energy Services signed four contracts with Pemex unit Pemex Production and Exploration (PEP) between 2008 and 2011, worth 4.66bn pesos (US$361mn). The firm carried out drilling services in the Chicontepec basin, one of Mexico's largest oil reserves, estimated at 17.7Bboe, or 40% of the country's total.
Also in June, opposition party PAN put forward a package of legal measures to combat alleged corruption in Pemex and state power company CFE.
PAN wants contracts signed between the bodies and the private sector to be protected by anti-corruption legislation.
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