Audit Finds Ex-Pemex Chief Didn’t Embezzle

There is no evidence that the ex-director of Mexico’s state-run oil company funneled $170 million in public funds to the former ruling party’s presidential candidate, the government’s chief auditor said.

In a presentation of government expenditures for 2000 before Congress, Arturo Gonzalez, head of Mexico’s federal comptroller’s office, said Rogelio Montemayor did not embezzle public funds.

Though he never mentioned Montemayor by name, Gonzalez exonerated him by saying that the head of Petroleos Mexicanos in 2000 “never violated legal or administrative guidelines.”