Mexico Political Elite Engulfed by Scandal With Damning Leak
- Government says investigating leak of Pemex ex-CEO’s complaint
- Former oil chief lays out bribery charges linked to oil reform
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Three former Mexican presidents and over a dozen ex-ministers and legislators were accused of bribery, according to a document attributed to a key witness, in another chapter of a growing corruption scandal that is shaking the country’s political elite.
Former presidents Enrique Pena Nieto, Felipe Calderon and Carlos Salinas de Gortari are among 17 Mexican politicians and a journalist named by Emilio Lozoya, the disgraced ex-head of state oil giant Petroleos Mexicanos, in his purported testimony to Mexican prosecutors, according to a leaked copy of his deposition seen by several media organizations.