Marco López, Democratic candidate for Arizona governor, linked to bribery scheme in Mexico
The records obtained by the Agenda and Mexican news organization show the payments to López's firm went through a Swiss bank account and a company managed by the alleged middleman of the bribery scheme.
That middleman, Emilio Lozoya, later began cooperating with Mexican prosecutors in hopes of reducing his own punishment, according to the Associated Press.
Lozoya faces charges he accepted more than $4 million in bribes from Odebrecht, a construction contracting firm based in Brazil.
Lozoya told investigators in mid-2020 that Peña Nieto, on whose campaign Lozoya worked, and a top aide ordered him to use the bribe money to pay consultants working on the campaign and to influence policy. Peña Nieto was president from 2012 to 2018.
One payment went to López's company. Intermestic Partners was hired by Lozoya to run security checks, work that was not affiliated with the Peña Nieto campaign, López wrote in response to written questions from The Republic.
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