The World - News from Nov. 6, 1988
A new congressional commission was created to look into fraud allegations against the former head of Pemex, the Mexican government oil company, hours after a move to exonerate him. Opposition members of the Chamber of Deputies, the lower house, accused the governing Institutional Revolutionary Party of pushing through the vote to clear Mario Ramon Beteta. Three chamber committees then agreed to create the new panel to reopen the probe. Mexico’s Oil Workers Union has accused Beteta, who headed Pemex from 1982 until last January, of defrauding the company of $49 million in the 1985 leasing of two tankers.
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