Some Charges Dropped in Pemex-PRI Case
Prosecutors have dropped money-laundering and organized crime charges against current and former officials at the state-run oil monopoly and leaders of the party that ruled Mexico for 71 straight years, the attorney general’s office said.
The office said it had concluded there wasn’t sufficient evidence to continue its cases against 11 people accused of funneling millions of dollars in funds from the labor union of Petroleos Mexicanos, or Pemex, to the Institutional Revolutionary Party. The group could still face electoral fraud charges.
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