Mexico union boss victory exposes crack in top graft cases
Michael O'Boyle, Stefanie Eschenbacher
MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - A Mexican court ruling allowing an ex-union boss to walk free of money laundering charges laid bare a serious flaw in a host of other high-profile corruption trials, officials and experts say, and underscored the challenge facing the incoming government.
Last week, former teachers union leader Elba Esther Gordillo walked when a judge dismissed charges that she laundered over $100 million in union funds to pay for luxury goods and plastic surgery.
Judge Miguel Angel Aguilar of Mexico City’s first penal tribunal justified his decision, in part, using a November 2017 Supreme Court ruling that stated that prosecutors must first obtain court orders before requesting financial records, according to non-public court documents reviewed by Reuters.
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Sounds like a flaw in prosecuting corruption and Mexico is notoriously known for it's corruption though, they are not among the world's worse offenders. Those countries are ones like Venezuela and North Korea, so I guess, that's what Communism/Marxism gets you.
