MEXICO CITY—Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador, who has created his political bones fighting corruption, located himself denying corruption allegations on Friday right after two films emerged exhibiting his younger brother accepting an envelope and a brown paper bag stuffed full of income in 2015 for the president’s political motion.
The release of the films will come just a working day right after graft allegations versus 3 previous presidents rocked Mexico’s political course. The intensive details on alleged bribes and corruption created to prosecutors by Emilio Lozoya, the previous chief of point out oil organization Petróleos Mexicanos, appeared to give a increase to Mr. López Obrador’s political fortunes.
But the most current films, and an accompanying audio recording, could confirm to be at the very least a temporary reversal of fortune for the president. The leftist nationalist vowed to stop Mexico’s deep-seated corruption and rode a wave of well-known disgust with the prior government to power in 2018.
On Friday, the president reported that he thought of the broadcast of the films to be a response from his political foes to the leak of Mr. Lozoya’s criticism to nearby media. The money handed to his brother were “contributions” of about $90,000 to support pay his fledgling political movement’s operating charges, Mr. López Obrador additional.
Mr. López Obrador reported the films must be handed to federal prosecutors to look into, and that his brother and the guy he was shown meeting must be called to answer inquiries.