Carlos Ahumada Kurtz (born in 1964 in Córdoba, Argentina) is a Mexican businessman owner of Grupo Quart, a newspaper (El Independiente) and two football clubs (Santos Laguna and León) in Mexico who was convicted for corruption-related crimes in Mexico City in 2004. Televisa is the largest media company in the Spanish-speaking world, and a major player in the international entertainment business. ... Interpol logo INTERPOL (or International Criminal Police Organization) was created in 1923 to assist international criminal police co-operation. ... Downtown Córdoba. ... Club Santos Laguna, also known as Santos Laguna or Santos, is a Mexican professional football club. ... Mexico City (Spanish: Ciudad de México) is the name of a megacity located in the Valley of Mexico (Valle de México), a large valley in the high plateaus (altiplano) in the South of Mexico, about 2,240 meters (7,349 feet) above sea-level, surrounded on most sides...

Ahumada Kurtz moved to Mexico at the age of 11 on October 6, 1975 ^[1] with his mother and brother Pablo and in 1991 acquired Mexican citizenship. October 6 is the 279th day of the year (280th in Leap years). ... 1975 (MCMLXXV) was a common year starting on Wednesday (the link is to a full 1975 calendar). ...

Government contracts

In 1990 he fled the country when the company owned by his brother Roberto Aníbal was accused of fraud against 900 senior citizens using a pyramid scheme in 1987^[2] for the amount of 36 million pesos. Two years later he founded his company Grupo Quart. His company obtained a contract in 1994 to build two overpasses for the city of Acapulco. That same year he was imprisoned for 29 days for generic fraud. A pyramid scheme is a non-sustainable business model that involves the exchange of money primarily for enrolling other people into the scheme, usually without any product or service being delivered. ... The peso is the currency of Mexico. ... Overpass in East Potomac Park, Washington, D.C. Flyover in Miami Beach, Florida An overpass (In UK, most Commonwealth countries flyover) is a bridge, road or similar structure that crosses over another road. ... Acapulco (Officially: Acapulco de Juárez) is a city and major sea port in the state of Guerrero on the Pacific coast of Mexico, 300 km (190 miles) southwest from Mexico City, at 16. ...

He also obtained contracts for paving streets for the government of the Federal District during the administration of Manuel Camacho Solís (PRI) but it was until 1988 during the administration of the first-elected head of government, Cuauhtémoc Cárdenas (1997-99, PRD) that the number of contracts became significant. Under the administration of Rosario Robles (1999-2000, PRD) the number of contracts increased furthermore. In 2003 he obtained contracts for 370 million pesos in Álvaro Obregón, D.F. a borough of Mexico City adminstered by Luis Eduardo Zuno, member of the PAN ^[3]. Zuno was later imprisoned when he was discovered with a plane and armament on July 4 of the same year ^[4]. The Mexican Federal District, known in Spanish as Distrito Federal (D.F.), is an area within Mexico that is not part of any of the Mexican states, but an independent self-governing city-state and the seat of the Federal Government. ... Manuel Camacho Solís is a Mexican politician who currently serves in the lower house of the Mexican Congress Political career Inside the PRI Camacho Solís joined the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) in 1965 and in 1988 he became that partys general secretary. ... The Institutional Revolutionary Party (Spanish: Partido Revolucionario Institucional or PRI) is a Mexican political party that wielded hegemonic power in the country – under a succession of names – for more than 70 years. ... Cuauhtémoc Cárdenas Solórzano (born May 1, 1934) is a prominent Mexican politician. ... The Party of the Democratic Revolution (in Spanish: Partido de la Revolución Democrática, PRD) is one of the three main political parties in Mexico. ... Rosario Robles Berlanga is a left-wing Mexican politician, who was appointed substitute Head of Government of the Federal District ( Mayor of Mexico City) when Cuauhtémoc Cárdenas resigned from the post to run (unsuccessfully) for the presidency in 2000. ... Álvaro Obregón is one of the 16 delegaciones (boroughs) into which Mexicos Federal District is divided. ... The National Action Party is the name of various political parties El Salvador - National Action Party (Partido Acción Nacional) Mexico - National Action Party (Partido Acción Nacional) See also: National Party, List of political parties. ... July 4 is the 185th day of the year (186th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 180 days remaining. ...

Videoscandals

On June 10, 2003 Ahumada videotaped a conversation with René Bejarano, then local deputy in the congress of the Federal District and former personal secretary of Andrés Manuel López Obrador, Head of Government of the Federal District and current presidential candidate representing the Party of the Democratic Revolution (PRD) in the 2006 elections. The conversation was then presented by Federico Döring, a politician belonging to the National Action Party (PAN), on Víctor Trujillo's high rated television talk show on March 3 of the same year. In the video, a faceless person was offering $45,000 in cash to Bejarano ^[5]. Bejarano then declared the funds were donations to the campaign of Leticia Robles Colín, another PRD politician. When it was discovered the faceless person in the video was Ahumada, he declared that public servants of the government of the Federal District had been blackmailing him since at least the previous year ^[4]. June 10 is the 161st day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (162nd in leap years), with 204 days remaining. ... 2003 (MMIII) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Andrés Manuel López Obrador Andrés Manuel López Obrador (born 13 November 1953) is a Mexican politician. ... The Head of Government ( Spanish: Jefe de Gobierno) wields executive power in the Mexican Federal District (the federal district, or D.F., is the seat of national executive, legislative, and judicial power, and is largely contiguous with the core of the sprawling Mexico City conurbation). ... The Party of the Democratic Revolution (in Spanish: Partido de la Revolución Democrática, PRD) is one of the three main political parties in Mexico. ... A general election is scheduled to be held in Mexico on Sunday, 2 July 2006. ... Federico Döring Casar is a Mexican right-wing politician from Mexico City affiliated to the National Action Party (PAN) who has served in the Mexican Federal District Legislative Assembly and in the Chamber of Deputies of Mexico during the LIX legislature. ... The National Action Party is the name of various political parties El Salvador - National Action Party (Partido Acción Nacional) Mexico - National Action Party (Partido Acción Nacional) See also: National Party, List of political parties. ... Víctor Trujillo (b. ... March 3 is the 62nd day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (63rd in leap years). ...

Another video made public in the evening of March 3 showed a conversation between Ahumada and Bejarano where the first complaints about non-payments by the Federal District government to Quart. Bejarano then promises to speak woth López Obrador about the issue and to remind him that Ahumada has financed the campaigns of several PRD members ^[6]. This incident and another video of similar content were labeled videoscandals by the press. Carlos Ahumada then flew to Havana, Cuba entering the country on February 27 with a Mexican passport. Days later, on March 12 Interpol notified the government of Cuba that Ahumada is being required in Mexico to respond to criminal charges, he was detained on March 30. The government of Mexico through its ambassador in Cuba, Roberta Lajous, initiated the process of extradition the next day and on April 28 of the same year Ahumada was deported to Mexico City where he remains imprisoned. The Videoscandals were political scandals in Mexico in 2004 when videos taken with hidden cameras were made public. ... Aerial view of Havana Havana (Spanish in full: San Cristóbal de La Habana, usually shortened to just La Habana; UN/LOCODE: CU HAV) is the capital of Cuba and, with a population of 2. ... Interpol logo INTERPOL (or International Criminal Police Organization) was created in 1923 to assist international criminal police co-operation. ... Cuba is a republic led by President Fidel Castro, who is Chief of State, Head of Government, First Secretary of the CPC, and commander in chief of the armed forces. ... This article describes the government of the United Mexican States. ... April 28 is the 118th day of the year (119th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 247 days remaining. ...

Bejarano renounced to his membership to the PRD ^[7] the same day the videos were made public and was controversially freed on bail in 2005 ^[8]. Rosario Robles, whose trip to Cuba helped locate Ahumada, renounced her party, the PRD. Carlos Imaz, borough mayor of Tlalpan, and Octavio Flores, borough mayor of Gustavo A. Madero renounced to their positions in government, they were also members of the PRD. The Ajusco Mountains in Tlalpan, Mexico City Tlalpan is the largest of the 16 delegaciones (boroughs) into which Mexicos Federal District (Mexico City) is divided. ... Gustavo A. Madero is one of the 16 delegaciones (boroughs) into which Mexicos Federal District is divided. ...

Footnotes

External link

• Carlos Ahumada Kurtz on terra.com (Spanish)