Overview

• The US Department of Justice alleges that between 2019 and 2021 two businessmen paid at least $150,000 and offered luxury gifts to secure Pemex and PEP contracts
• One of the accused, Ramón Alexandro Rovirosa Martínez, was detained following the DOJ disclosure while Mario Alberto Ávila Lizárraga remains at large
• Sheinbaum said the irregular contracts were detected and cancelled during Octavio Romero Oropeza’s tenure as Pemex director, a point Romero reaffirmed by noting he informed then-president López Obrador
• The federal government rejected reports of a nationwide fuel shortage and said some Defense Ministry transport tankers will transfer to Pemex to resolve distribution issues
• Anticorruption Secretary Raquel Buenrostro will identify all involved parties and explain how the irregularities were discovered and stopped in a report due next week