Overview

• MCCI obtained the declassified August 11 DOJ indictment naming Ramón Alexandro Rovirosa Martínez and Mario Alberto Ávila Lizárraga, described as Mexican nationals residing in the United States.
• Prosecutors allege the businessmen bribed Pemex officials between 2019 and 2021 to manipulate bidding and secure millions of dollars in contracts.
• The filing describes bribes totaling about $150,000, including cash, a Louis Vuitton bag and a Hublot watch, to influence a senior internal audit manager at Pemex Exploration and Production during an audit that was blocking a payment.
• Mexican outlets report that the anonymized “Foreign Official #1” corresponds to Erick Alexandro Núñez Albarrán, then PEP’s audit chief who now serves as director of Atención a Órganos Fiscalizadores at Veracruz’s SIOP.
• The reports note Núñez works under Leonardo Cornejo Serrano at SIOP, an official previously linked in Mexican reporting to the Odebrecht corruption case.