The governor of Chiapas, Eduardo Ramírez, announced that he has removed José Carlos Lemus Vidal, commander of the Pakal Immediate Reaction Force group, from his position due to allegations of corruption, including possible links to criminal groups in the state, specifically in La Concordia.
In a video on social media, he stated that he takes the complaint filed by a member who left the coordination group regarding these irregularities very seriously.
“I have asked the State Attorney General to guarantee the rights of the complainant. I have asked the Secretary of Public Security to remove the commander of this region from his duties so that he can face a legal, honest, and transparent investigation without any bias.”
He stated that in his administration, “there is no room for impunity, no room for complicity. Chiapas has already suffered much violence, much bloodshed, and those events and that chapter so ferocious and so offensive to families in Chiapas will not happen again. We will work every day with the law in hand, we will continue working, we will continue to confront crime.”
He considered that their actions have affected economic interests “and they would like us to fail in our security strategy.
Not one criminal group will see that strategy fail; it will continue to be an example in Chiapas, we will live in peace, and tranquility will be guaranteed because we enjoy moral authority.”
A government with moral authority, he emphasized, does not commit acts of impunity of any kind with any criminal group.
“The law will always be applied with transparency, and that will result in the peace in which we live and work every day.”
The former member of Pakal is Francisco Ramírez Galindo, who in a video lasting more than 26 minutes made several accusations against members of that organization, which undermines the organization’s goal of providing security in the state.
“About two or a month and a half ago, we were coming during the day. Suddenly, they started racing, drunk, with his bodyguards, and his driver. Suddenly, he got lost and started chasing two kids on a motorcycle—and the cameras are there, Mr. Aparicio, if you doubt my word (…) it’s not fair that those kinds of scumbags are working in your institution. His driver ran them over, two kids who weren’t carrying anything. When we arrived, we saw clearly that his driver put a red and black bag on the kids, one of them almost dying. The men were very drunk, in uniform, and with police cars.”
He recounted several episodes in which he accuses Lemus of leading the case, especially because “the people he should have put in jail didn’t put them in jail (others). He fabricates crimes, he grabs people who really aren’t doing anything, and this bastard locks them up, gives them marijuana, gives them cocaine. The PDI hasn’t wanted to accept them; the man uses tricks to get them in. It’s not fair that innocent people are being locked up.”
He accused that “the man receives large amounts of money from the mayor of La Concordia. I have messages where he says we shouldn’t have any friction with the president (…) I had no choice but to resign because my principles truly don’t agree with what’s being done.”
He immediately pointed to Jorge Humberto Acevedo González, alias “La Zarigüeya,” whom he said was “a bastard who has an arrest warrant;” and Agustín Iván Prado Zepeda, “another bastard who also has an arrest warrant in other states for abuse of authority, disappearance, and many other things.”
He said he had evidence of bases where fuel theft is carried out, which they do in La Concordia.
He warned that these complaints will reach the US authorities because of all the drugs they allow to pass through, and that he will send a letter to the US embassy “where, if anything were to happen to me, I would directly blame these people I’m reporting.” And I’m not afraid of them because I’ve always reported them.”
Among other factors that are a consequence of this collusion, he pointed out that the Northeast Cartel, for example, has been allowed to enter and warned that what happened in other states like Michoacán could happen again, “where crime has taken root and you won’t be able to get it out.”
From the beginning of his complaint, he said that the commanders at many times “were drunk, literally since we arrived, with this whole gang of rustlers, that’s what I’m going to call them. Mr. Aparicio Avendaño, we really need you to pay attention to the rank and file. There are very good commanders who really want to work, but they aren’t allowed to.”
He asked Governor Ramírez to focus on this group.
“This man, from the moment he arrived, started drinking with his driver. His driver tried to assault a young woman who was working at the hotel, which was already occupied. This man isn’t doing things right. He knows who I am (…) denigrating a uniform, a very good project,” and denounced the man’s request to the officers to “release” those he identified as hawks for a criminal group in the state, stating that “you don’t have to be very intelligent to know that.”
Meanwhile, Commissioner Carlos Javier Pineda Antillón, director of the Pakal Immediate Reaction Force, confirmed that the complainant is one of his officers and sought to emphasize that he came from the defunct Federal Police and had not shown up for work for two days. “Three days can already be considered as abandonment of duty. Although the officer gave his reasons for leaving the group.
“I have clear and precise instructions from our Secretary of Public Security to address each and every situation that arises at the bases of operations with the officers, and of course, when there is a conflict with citizens, if there is any complaint,” Pineda stated.
I confirm that the state prosecutor’s office has taken part in the case and opened an investigation file because it is a “criminal report,” so Ramírez Galindo would be called to testify and “provide the necessary evidence for his statement, and if so, we will act accordingly, but if not, we will also act accordingly.”
Although the official finally came forward: “So that we stop defaming a professional and trustworthy institution that has dedicated itself to guaranteeing peace for the people of Chiapas.”
Source: proceso
