• FORFEITURE: A local judge in Mexico City authorized the embargo of property owned by renowned university professor Sergio Aguayo, to ensure the payment of alleged moral damages caused, in favor of former Governor of Coahuila, Humberto Moreira, in an irregular defamation lawsuit.
• LIBEL: Stemming from a 2016 defamation suit presented after Aguayo wrote a column in Reforma newspaper about Moreira, judge Francisco Castillo said that the embargo of property -worth USD 500,000- was to guarantee compliance with an upper court guilty verdict.
• COAHUILA: A former president of the PRI party, Moreira was Governor of Coahuila from 2005 to 2011. In 2016, Moreira was arrested in Spain under suspicion of money laundering. US media has reported Moreira’s name appears in several US federal criminal cases.
• COLUMN: “Finally, Humberto Moreira faces justice: the Spanish (justice system). Through this act it is shown how Mexican institutions are virtuous in protecting the corrupt”, professor Aguayo wrote in his January 20, 2016 column that the former Governor is contesting.
