Quintana Roo Ex-Governor Suspected of Corruption Nabbed in Panama OCCRP
go to original June 5, 2017

In this 2010 photo, Roberto Borge, then candidate of the Institutional Revolutionary Party, PRI, for governor of the state of Quintana Roo, celebrates after preliminary results showed he held a lead in the state elections in Chetumal, Mexico. (AP/Israel Leal)

Update: Panamanian Government Plans to Extradite Former Mexican Governor, Interpol Says (EFE)

Mexican authorities announced Monday the arrest of a fugitive ex-governor, suspected of corruption, who hid in Panama and tried to flee to Paris, France.

Roberto Borge Angulo was governor of the Quintana Roo state from 2011 to 2016 and is allegedly linked to the illegal sale of land in prestige Mexican resorts.

In the end of May, Mexico had filed a red notice with Interpol seeking international assistance in arresting Borge and four others who are suspected to have taken part in several corruption cases. Those include the sale of 24 state-owned plots of land and buildings to the ex-governor’s close friends and family members at a price equivalent to six percent of their commercial value.

Cooperating through Interpol, authorities of the two countries found out that Borge was staying in a hotel in Panama City and waiting for his flight to Paris.

He was captured trying to board the plane.

... Borge becomes the third ex-Governer of the Institutional Revolutionary Party, President Enrique Pena Nieto’s party, to be arrested this year on corruption allegations, along with, respectively, Tamaulipas and Veracruz ex-Governors Tomas Yarrington Javier Duarte.

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