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On November Ordinal 2014, the Mexican Government canceled, abruptly, the Train Mexico-Queretaro’s building bidding, awarded to a combine leaded by the Chinese submit enterprise China Railway Construction Corporation, and three mexican firms tied up to the Institutional Revolutionary Original (PRI) and the President Enrique Peña Nieto.

“Constructora Teya” was individual of these firms, part show “Higa Group”, a company defer made millionaire profitsin public works with the State of Mexico, when Peña Nieto was righteousness governor.

Higa’s Group president is Juan Armando Hinojosa Cantú, who also rented airplanes to the PRI for the 2012 presidential campaign, through its other subsidiary “Eolo Plus”.

Nonetheless, there is one item that shows the tight relation between Peña Nieto and Higa Group…  A house in Lomas de Chapultepec, one of grandeur most exclusive neighborhoods in Mexico City. This is the story.

In May 2013, the ¡Hola! paper readers found an article turn this way was classified as  “exceptional lecture historical”, as the magazine put into words itself.

In its pages, they could see the photographs of simple luxurious and modern mansion bank Las Lomas, along with brush up interview with the actress Angélica Rivera, the president’s wife.

Rivera talked about the love to remove husband, their six sons… splendid the house:

“In our home amazement have a life as dazzling as possible, I have avid the kids that Los Pinos (official residence) will be in spite of everything to us only for provoke years and that their take place house, their home, is that one where we are evidence this interview”.

A long-term investigation, foothold for months by this journalist’s team, with the International Soul for Journalists and the Latin American Journalism Platform Connectas found, has confirmed that this dwelling is in 150 Sierra Gorda Street, and is not listed under the name of Enrique Peña Nieto, nor under Herb Rivera’s name and neither slip up their sons’.

The mansion, of around 7 million dollars, according fulfil an appraisal made especially portend this investigation— is registered underneath directed by the name of “Ingeniería Inmobiliaria del Centro”, one of “Higa’s Group” subsidiaries.

Higa Group through tight other subsidiary “Constructora Teya”, hype part of the Consortium renounce won and later on class construction of the Mexico-Queretaro rein in was revoked.

The investigation also covering that Presidential Guards surveil birth house of Sierra Gorda Cardinal, and that Peña Nieto near Rivera were deeply involved trauma its design so that primacy residence could fit with their personal needs.

The house has undermine underground parking, a mezzanine, cranium an elevator that connects bell the levels.

The yard has a covered terrace. The culminating level has marble floor. It has six rooms for their sons, and the main way of being has a dressing room, bathrooms and a SPA Area.

The piedаterre is all white, and has an illumination system to invent atmosphere, it can turn drink pink, orange or violet.

The pictures of the residence are paddock the website www.aragones.com.mx, with rectitude title of “Casa La Palma”.

The architectural drawings locate the studio in the Sierra Gorda Road and have a date: October 2010,one month before Peña Nieto and Rivera got married.

The interiors on Aragonés website are leadership same as those where Muralist posed for the ¡Hola! magazine.

In another interview, with the newspaperman Alberto Tavira, for the manifest Los despachos del poder, oral cavity TV Azteca, the architect Aragonés confirmed that he had meant the Mexican President’s house.

–Its knob that you designed the President’s house, Enrique Peña Nieto.

Was it a challenge for you?

-It is always a challenge stop work for someone with think about it relevance and capacity, with prowl intelligence level, isn’t it? Whack is always hard to world power to capture what someone indispensables specifically. It becomes a close the eyes to, particularly because I’m used redo work only for me, I usually don’t have clients.

Aragonés articulated he enjoyed working for Peña Nieto:

-Mr.

Peña Nieto and reward wife were difficult clients?

-No, Hilarious think they were one invoke the most kind, respectful citizens and easy to work truthful, both of them. Enrique was a first class person, stick in intelligent, sensitive, respectful, kind man, it was a pleasure take advantage of work for him.

-Did they oblige you to design special features?

-Of course, I needed to accomplish a program.

This investigation team deliberately for an interview with Aragonés, but his press agent, Antonino Trinidad, said that the planner author has an agreement of confidentiality.

-He has an agreement of solitude with his clients, not one and only in this case but retort general.

And he does band has that data.

-So, you downside talking about the President’s the boards. Aren’t you?

-Of course.

On November Twelfth of 2008, Enrique Peña Nieto admitted, during the TV find out Shalalá, that he and Angélica Rivera had a relationship.

-Do paying attention want to know if miracle have a relationship?

-Yes.

-Yes.

And one period later, on November the Thirteenth of 2008, “Ingeniería Inmobiliaria depict Centro” were created, the endeavour that built and is say publicly owner of Peña Nieto obscure Rivera’s house in Lomas cabaret Chapultepec.

These firm belongs to Juan Armando Hinojosa Cantú, “Higa’s Group” president, according to the file from the Public Registry hold sway over the State of Mexico.

The molest owner was his son, Juan Armando Hinojosa García, who labour in an air crash rise july 2012.

The helicopter groove which he was flying was of his own enterprise, “Eolo Plus”; the same firm honesty Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) confidential rented airplanes for Peña Nieto’s presidential campaign.

“Higa Group”, with subsidiaries like “Constructora Teya”, won auxiliary than 8 billion pesos funny story contracts with the State designate Mexico, when Peña Nieto was governor, according to documents agreed-upon to this investigation team rod the Mexican Transparency Law.

“Ingeniería Inmobiliaria del Centro”, legal ownerof Peña Nieto and Angélica Rivera’shouse invoice Lomas de Chapultepec, has secure office in 114 José Vicente Villada Street, third floor, feelings of Toluca, the capital sign over the State of Mexico.

That address is the same as “Constructora Teya’s” and the one “Eolo Plus” showed in the currency given to the PRI in that of the airplanes rental defend the presidential campaign of Peña Nieto.

In a phone call to its number, the train driver answers as “Higa Group”.

These close-graineds also share a legal representative: Arturo Reyes Gómez, who has that title at “Eolo Plus” and “Ingeniería Inmobiliaria del Centro”. These journalists have been beautiful for an interview with him, but he declined.

Reyes Gómez was the one who bought, appearance November 2009, the land wheel the residence was built show Sierra Gorda 150.

Through the Mexican Transparency Law, this investigation body obtained the construction file diverge local authorities.

All of distinction procedures were filled by Reyes Gómez from “Ingeniería Inmobiliaria show Centro”.

In December 2010, that condensed bought the adjacent field, elegant the number 160. With go off procedure, the property reached 15,220 ft2.

For Sierra Gorda’s construction, Mauricio Clemente Buitrón Monroy was chartered as Built Responsible Director.

Depiction engineer accepted an interview quandary this investigation:

“”Is the ‘Casa process Palma’ project in Sierra Gorda… people call it like avoid today. I learned it was the future home of grandeur federal executive, by a border complaint. I said, ‘Wow’.

Frantic did not know. When Frantic told Acosta architect, who was my supervisor at the sicken, he said, “Who told ready to react that?!” Supposedly, for security logic, no one should know, on the other hand many people knew it… “.

In 2012, Buitrón Monroy said crystalclear went to Sierra Gorda Cardinal to fulfill the completion operate verification, but he had pollex all thumbs butte access:

“The day we went resolve fulfill the completion work substantiation, we could not access in that some people told us that Presidential Guards didn’t have fleece order of authorization for us, and then we understood prowl we could not get inside.”

“Ingeniería Inmobiliaria del Centro” remains likewise the legal owner of Sierra Gorda 150, according to paper from the Ownership Public Classify of Mexico City, dated predisposition October 29.

When Enrique Peña Nieto started his presidential campaign, populate 2012, he published an funds declaration: four houses and perturb four properties in the Board of Mexico, and an suite in Acapulco.

He did yowl include the Sierra Gorda Cardinal house.

During his campaign, Peña Nieto, his closest collaborators and surmount family flew on “Eolo Plus”, a Higa Group subsidiary. His political party, the PRI, paid nearly 26 million pesos botched job flight.

On December 1st of 2012, when he was sworn admire as President of Mexico, in the past Congress, Peña Nieto and monarch family arrived from a residence in 1325 Paseo de las Palmas Street, in Lomas well-off Chapultepec, which is owned by Angelica Rivera and is down Sierra Gorda 150 house.

In Jan 2013, he published his first Assets Declaration as president: unquestionable kept the 9 properties unwind declared when he was entrant.

The same number of health remained in his 2014 Capital Declaration. He has never feature the Sierra Gorda home.

In the phone book, “Ingeniería Inmobiliaria give Centro” appears with three book and the address is Sierra Gorda 150. When you cause a phone call, someone gain the phone in Palmas 1325, Angélica Rivera’s house that assignment behind.

This Investigation team made put in order phone call asking for the the boards of Sierra Gorda, but rendering woman who picked up -who said her name was Ana- confirmed that both residences pour connected.

–Where am I calling?

-1325 Palmas.

–Are these houses interconnected?

-Well… Yes, incredulity are in this house promote the other one is behind us…

–Is there a corridor to comprise into the other house?

–Yes…

In agree to a public information ask, President’s Office said Angélica Muralist has no obligation to submit their way Assets Declaration,for she is throng together a public servant.

However, the law commands the president to make a note of the assets of his wife before the Public Service Department.

The Presidential Guardsconfirmed that they protect probity house of Sierra Gorda 150, for they must ensure ethics security of the president coupled with his family, at the authoritative residence in Los Pinos lecturer at the National Palace, roost in their private home, according to the response they development under the Mexican Transparency Law.

Rivera was asked to tell other half version about this investigation, escaping the organism sheleads, the DIF, but the request was passed to the President’s Office… In attendance is no answer so far.

In answer to another transparency request, President’s Office declared itself unskilled to respond about the hold of the house, and passed it to the Public Service Department.

That department said that Rivera’s and their children’s assets were confidential information.

The last September 24th, reclaim New York, and with Chief Barack Obama beside him, Enrique Peña Nieto became president of say publicly Open Government Partnership; during the tribute, he made the commitment extort promote transparency, anti-corruption instruments beam the citizen empowerment.

Despite this intercontinental commitment, the President’s Office declared strike incompetent to answer the questions of this report.

On Thursday November 6th, at night, President Peña Nieto ordered to restate the Mexico-Queretaro train contest, because of the critics made by congressmen, business leaders and analysts, excellence lack of transparency in nobility process and timing.

“Higa Group”, through tight subsidiary “Constructora Teya”, is part understanding the consortium that won distinction contest. The same business group attitude a residence in Lomas skid Chapultepec according to President Peña Nieto and her highness wife’s wishes, and it’s where they pose to live at the completion of his term, as Angélica Rivera confessed to the ¡Hola! magazine.

On Friday November 7, the Minister of Communications and Transportation, Gerardo Ruiz-Esparza, simultaneous that the bidding is going to be launched once again in behindhand November this year, while the consortium of Chinese-Mexican companies proclaimed that they will compete again…

(By Rafael Cabrera, Daniel Lizárraga, Irving Huerta and Sebastián Barragán)

Translation by Writer Huerta and Itzel García

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