Jorge Luis Fuentes stated that the so-called Real Estate Cartel is comprised of several groups colluding with authorities.
Local judges, notaries, prosecutors, and even magistrates are involved in real estate fraud in Tijuana, according to attorney Jorge Luis Fuentes.
At a press conference, Fuentes, who is also the managing partner of the law firm Fuentes Santillán y Asociados, revealed that both state and federal officials are connected to the so-called Real Estate Cartel.
He commented that, following numerous complaints not only in Tijuana but throughout the country, they have sought to raise awareness of those affected by these types of crimes.
However, he asserted that both the Attorney General’s Office and the State Supreme Court have tried to downplay this problem, even though it is happening right here in Tijuana.
He added that they have identified several trials and proceedings involving local judges, the Attorney General’s Office, the Public Registry of Property, notaries public, and lawyers.
These public officials, he added, have issued swift rulings that favor certain groups presenting falsified documents and forged notarial acts.
He mentioned one case in which the Third Civil Court judge, Pedro Galaf Hernández García, issued a ruling that allowed the eviction of a group of people.
What caught the lawyers’ attention was the speed with which he issued this ruling—in less than a month—to dispossess 192 people living in the San Luis condominiums of their homes.
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Another issue they detected in the same case, the lawyer indicated, is that they were not properly served with the ruling, but rather received notification through a list published online.
Therefore, their firm filed an injunction through a definitive suspension granted by the judge of the city’s seventeenth district, thus preventing the residents from being affected.
They also discovered that those who attempted to dispossess the affected residents of their homes were not even parties to the litigation.
Seeing that their intentions had been thwarted, the lawyers in the case used force, without a judge’s authorization, to enter the company’s administrative offices and attempt to seize the homes.
They presented a video showing two lawyers, accompanied by municipal officers and a locksmith, attempting to seize the homes located in the Campestre Murúa neighborhood.
Following these events, the firm has already filed a complaint for the crime of dispossession, not only against the lawyers but also against the Municipal Police.
Regarding this, Jorge Luis Fuentes stated that the so-called Real Estate Cartel is not a single individual, but rather several groups colluding with authorities.
He announced that, as a result of this matter, they managed to have the case file reopened and several public officials involved investigated.
Among them, he named Juan José Chávez Martínez, an analyst at the Public Registry of Property; Alberto Zamarrón Niño, a sub-registrar at the same agency, both from Tijuana; and Martín Gilberto Adame López, notary public number 130 in the State of Mexico.
He also revealed that the lawyers connected to this illegal activity are under investigation: Carlos “N”, Marisol “N”, Concepción “N”, and Víctor Manuel “N”, the latter of whom currently serves as a federal magistrate in Mexico City.
Source: sandiegored
