From 'InSight Crime'
Mexico Attorney General to Investigate 700 State Employees: "Mexico's Attorney General's Office will investigate up to 700 state employees suspected of corruption, said an investigator handling the case.
According to Proceso, the charges include robbery, fraud and accepting bribes. Since Attorney General Marisa Morales assumed office on April 1, Mexico's Justice Department -- known by the initials PGR -- has opened 137 investigations against 179 state employees, spokesman Cesar Alejandro Chavez Florez said. This is a dramatic increase from the same time period last year, when the PGR was handling just 33 prosecutions, he added.
This appears to be part of the PGR's efforts to show that it is newly focused on moving cases from arrests towards trials and convictions. A report released by the PGR earlier this year said that only 22 percent of all federal arrests last year were successfully brought to trial."
The MexicoBlog of the Americas Program, a fiscally sponsored program of the Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR), is written by Laura Carlsen. I monitor and analyze international press on Mexico, with a focus on security, immigration, human rights and social movements for peace and justice, from a feminist perspective. And sometimes I simply muse.
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