Mario Ruiz Massieu

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Mario Ruiz Massieu (born December 24, 1950 in Acapulco , † September 15, 1999 in New Jersey ) was a Mexican ambassador .

Life

Ruiz was General Secretary of the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México . After serving as ambassador to Copenhagen from late 1990 to early 1993 , he became a prosecutor . In 1993 and 1994 he coordinated the anti-drug program of the Mexican government of Carlos Salinas de Gortari , whose sister Adriana Salinas was temporarily the wife of his brother José Francisco.

In November 1994, Mario Ruiz Massieu resigned as prosecutor after Jose Francisco Salinas de Gortari, a brother of Carlos Salinas de Gortari, murdered his brother José Francisco Ruiz Massieu, the governor of Guerrero , and Carlos Salinas Gotari had him soliciting the Case had entrusted.

When Jose Francisco Salinas de Gortari was arrested in 1995, Mario Ruiz Massieu came under suspicion of having thwarted punishment in the case of the murder of his own brother. He wanted to fly to Madrid-Barajas Airport via Newark Airport . In Newark, US Customs found that Mario Ruiz Massieu was carrying US $ 46,000  that he had failed to declare on his customs form and would not allow him to travel any further. The Mexican Zedillo government filed four successive extradition requests , each of which Mario Ruiz Massieu successfully sued in US courts.

In December 1993, Mario Ruiz Massieu opened an account with Texas Commerce Bank in Houston by depositing $ 40,000 . By February 1995, 25 additional cash deposits were made between $ 98,000 and $ 800,000, resulting in an account balance of nearly $ 10 million.

In 1997, the Texas Attorney's Office , represented by Jesse Rodriguez, tried unsuccessfully to prove that the money was being used to purchase preferential drug trafficking treatment at Texas Commerce Bank . Ruiz claimed the money came from family savings. He went on to explain that the Zedillo government honors the loyalty of its officials with bonus payments and that his brother, the governor, had no confidence in Mexican banks.

Mario Ruiz Massieu committed suicide on September 15, 1999 , two days before a money laundering trial was due to begin in New Jersey, where he had been under house arrest for three years .

Publications

  • Yo acuso: denuncia de un crimen político, 1997
  • Entrega imediata, 2000
predecessor Office successor
Sergio Mota Marín Mexican Ambassador in Copenhagen
November 15, 1990 to February 6, 1993 		Teresa Margarita Roman Arista

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The New York Times , March 15, 1997, http://www.nytimes.com/1997/03/15/world/accused-mexican-says-chaos-led-him-to-ship-out-money.html ? ref = jose_francisco_ruiz_massieu
  2. ^ The Guardian , September 20, 1999, Mario Ruiz Massieu
  3. ↑ Embajadores de México
personal data
SURNAME Ruiz Massieu, Mario
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Mexican ambassador
DATE OF BIRTH December 24, 1950
PLACE OF BIRTH Acapulco
DATE OF DEATH September 15, 1999
Place of death New Jersey