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Alejandro Gertz Manero (born 31 October 1939) is a Mexican lawyer and Attorney General of Mexico. He served as Secretary of Public Security during part of
* In 2022 he was accused of abusing his position as Federal Prosecutor for a personal vendetta, illegally persecuting and jailing Alejandra Cuevas and Laura Moran for the death of his brother Federico Gertz in 2015.
* He was accused of influence trafficking and criminal association by the former Counsel to the President, Julio Scherer Ibarra.
* He owns several real estate properties in Madrid, Ibiza, Paris, New York, and Los Angeles, and bought 122 luxury vehicles.
* In 2021 he was admitted to the Mexican National Researchers System by a special committee, after having tried unsuccessfully for 11 years due to insufficient scientific output. Writer Guillermo Sheridan showed evidence of plagiarism in a biography of Guillermo Prieto published by Gertz Manero, which was also reported by a group of 77 researchers.
* When he was Public Safety Secretary in the government of Vicente Fox, Gertz Manero was detained by DEA and ATF when he landed in New York in an official Mexican government plane, carrying a false passport and $50,000 dlls in cash. In 2022 the USA government opened another investigation on him.
Vicente Fox
Vicente Fox Quesada (; born 2 July 1942) is a Mexican businessman and politician who served as the 62nd president of Mexico from 2000 to 2006. After campaigning as a Right-wing populism, right-wing populist, Fox was elected president on the Nat ...
's government. From 2009 to 2012 he served as Deputy of the LXI Legislature of the Mexican Congress representing the State of Mexico
The State of Mexico, officially just Mexico, is one of the 32 federal entities of the United Mexican States. Colloquially known as Edomex (from , the abbreviation of , and ), to distinguish it from the name of the whole country, it is the mo ...
.
Controversies
* In 2022 he was accused of abusing his position as Federal Prosecutor for a personal vendetta, illegally persecuting and jailing Alejandra Cuevas and Laura Moran for the death of his brother Federico Gertz in 2015.
* He was accused of influence trafficking and criminal association by the former Counsel to the President, Julio Scherer Ibarra.
* He owns several real estate properties in Madrid, Ibiza, Paris, New York, and Los Angeles, and bought 122 luxury vehicles.
* In 2021 he was admitted to the Mexican National Researchers System by a special committee, after having tried unsuccessfully for 11 years due to insufficient scientific output. Writer Guillermo Sheridan showed evidence of plagiarism in a biography of Guillermo Prieto published by Gertz Manero, which was also reported by a group of 77 researchers.
* When he was Public Safety Secretary in the government of Vicente Fox, Gertz Manero was detained by DEA and ATF when he landed in New York in an official Mexican government plane, carrying a false passport and $50,000 dlls in cash. In 2022 the USA government opened another investigation on him.
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1939 births Living people Politicians from Mexico City 20th-century Mexican lawyers Members of the Chamber of Deputies (Mexico) for the State of Mexico Citizens' Movement (Mexico) politicians Secretaries of public safety of Mexico Attorneys general of Mexico People named in the Paradise Papers Deputies of the LXI Legislature of Mexico 21st-century Mexican lawyers {{Mexico-politician-Citizens'Movement-stub