Anonymous ID: b65876 May 28, 2019, 4:52 p.m. No.6612448   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>2628 >>2885 >>3000 >>3083

Arrest warrant issued for ex-Pemex CEO in Mexico anti-graft push

 

MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Mexico issued an arrest warrant for a former chief of Mexican oil company Pemex, government-owned media said on Tuesday, in the first blow against former President Enrique Pena Nieto’s inner circle since a new government took office promising to clean up politics.

 

Citing sources at the attorney general’s office, Mexico news agency Notimex said a judge had ordered the arrest of Emilio Lozoya, who headed Pemex from 2012 to 2016.

 

A Mexican security source said the reports were accurate. The attorney general’s office did not respond to requests for comment.

 

Related to the case, Spanish police detained steel magnate Alonso Ancira on Tuesday, his company Altos Hornos de Mexico (AHMSA) said in a statement. The company sold a fertilizer plant to Pemex in 2014, while Lozoya was at the helm.

 

The investigation of Lozoya, who ran Pena Nieto’s 2012 election campaign, is the first high-profile corruption investigation launched by the government of President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador against the government he replaced on Dec. 1.

 

Lopez Obrador won election by a landslide promising to root out public sector corruption.

 

On Monday, the Finance Ministry said it had blocked accounts belonging to Lozoya and to AHMSA for allegedly carrying out illegal operations.

 

The ministry’s money laundering czar Santiago Nieto said the case also had links to Brazilian builder Odebrecht , whose executives have testified about bribes to politicians across Latin America.

 

“Operations with possibly illicit resources linked to acts of corruption were detected, particularly transfers of financial resources deposited by Altos Hornos de Mexico in an Odebrecht phantom shell company and part of the money reached Mr. Lozoya’s accounts,” Nieto said on Mexican radio.

 

Lozoya’s lawyer Javier Coello did not respond to a request for comment. Coello previously told Reuters his client did not receive bribes from AHMSA or Odebrecht and that none of Lozoya’s work at Pemex has been proven to have involved corruption.

MEXICO, SCOTLAND, BRAZIL

 

Last year, investigative news site Quinto Elemento Lab reported AHMSA paid $3.7 million to a shell company allegedly set up by Odebrecht to pay bribes.

 

Citing documents from Brazil’s Supreme Court, Quinto Elemento reported that AHMSA made three wire transfers to Grangemouth Trading Co’s account weeks after the steel company announced the controversial sale of the fertilizer plant to Pemex.

 

AHMSA’s Grangemouth payments were made to an account with Meinl Bank Antigua, Quinto Elemento reported. The account was the same one Odebrecht executives said in testimony that they used to pay Lozoya bribes.

 

Reuters reviewed the documents obtained by Quinto Elemento.

 

Pemex Fertilizers, a Pemex subsidiary created during Pena Nieto’s term, purchased two fertilizer plants in 2013 and 2016. One of the plants, ProAgro, was bought from AHMSA for $475 million, a sum that critics say was inflated. ProAgro was not operational when Pemex bought it.

 

Despite hundreds of millions of dollars spent to revive ProAgro, the plant was still not operating this year, according to a scathing government audit of the 2017 operations of Pemex, Mexico’s biggest state-owned firm.

 

The second plant, Fertinal, operated well below capacity, and Pemex Fertilizers suffered net losses of $665 million that year, according to the report. Meanwhile, its assets were worth $1.1 billion less over the course of the year, the report said.

 

Lozoya has defended the purchases as part of the government’s efforts to provide support to agriculture in Mexico.

 

Last week, the Public Administration Ministry announced sanctions against two senior Pemex executives from the Pena Nieto administration, without identifying the executives.

 

One of the executives was Lozoya, according to the people with knowledge of the matter, who was barred from holding public office for 10 years. Another was the former head of Pemex’s fertilizer unit, Mexican media reported.

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-mexico-pemex-crime/arrest-warrant-issued-for-ex-pemex-ceo-in-mexico-anti-graft-push-idUSKCN1SY2C7?il=0

Anonymous ID: b65876 May 28, 2019, 5:19 p.m. No.6612669   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>2843

Home Depot EVP-HR Sold $2.51m in shares-May 24

 

Cap#1 today, Cap#2 recent

The Home Depot is the world's leading retail distributor of residential remodeling products. Net sales break down by family of products as follows:

  • electrical, plumbing, DIY and kitchen materials (35%);

  • hardware, decoration, lighting and gardening products (29.8%);

  • construction materials and carpentry products (20.3%);

  • paint and surface coating products (14.9%).

As of 28/01/2018, the products are marketed through a network of 2,284 stores (of which 1,980 in the United States, 182 in Canada and 122 in Mexico).

The United States accounts for 91.6% of net sales.

Number of employees : 413 000 people.

https://www.marketscreener.com/HOME-DEPOT-THE-4826/company/

 

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Anonymous ID: b65876 May 28, 2019, 6:04 p.m. No.6613034   🗄️.is 🔗kun

Zillow Group Director bought $87.7m in shares-May 23-28

 

Zillow Group, Inc. owns and operates a portfolio of real estate and home related brands on mobile and Web. The Company's brands focus on all stages of the home lifecycle: renting, buying, selling and financing. The Company also provides consumers with data to find around homes, and connects them with the local professionals to help. The Company’s portfolio of consumer brands includes real estate and rental marketplaces Zillow, Trulia, StreetEasy, HotPads, Naked Apartments and RealEstate.com. In addition, Zillow Group provides a comprehensive suite of marketing software and technology solutions to help real estate, rental and mortgage professionals. The Company operates a number of business brands for real estate, rental and mortgage professionals, including Mortech, dotloop and Bridge Interactive.

 

Number of employees : 3 181 people.

https://www.marketscreener.com/ZILLOW-GROUP-INC-20814107/company/

 

This Director(of Zillow) has his hands in MANY pie's- sits on the BOD at Netflix and has for a very long time.

 

Mr. Jay Crandall Hoag has been a Director of TripAdvisor, Inc. since January 31, 2018. Mr. Hoag has been the Founding General Partner of Technology Crossover Ventures since June 1995. Mr. Hoag serves on the Investment Advisory Board at the University of Michigan. Mr. Hoag co-founded Technology Crossover Ventures in 1995 and is a Member of the leadership team. Mr. Hoag has strategic insights and extensive financial experience. He has evaluated, invested in and served as a board member of numerous companies, both public and private, and is familiar with a full range of corporate and board functions. He served as the Managing Director and Portfolio Manager at Chancellor Capital Management, where he served over 12 years as a technology focused Venture Capitalist and a Fund Manager. Mr. Hoag served as Managing Director of INVESCO Private Capital. From 1988 to 1994, he grew Chancellor Capital's public technology asset base from $20 million to over $250 million and achieved industry-leading performance. Since 1989, he was responsible for Chancellor Capital's private technology investments. He has been involved in a large number of technology investments, including Ariba Technologies, C|Net, Expedia, Facebook, Fandango, Groupon, Netflix, Prodege and Zillow, among many others. He serves as Director of Peloton Interactive, Inc. He has been a Director of Zillow Group, Inc. since October 2005 and EXE Technologies, Inc. since September 1999. He has been an Independent Director at Electronic Arts Inc. since September 6, 2011. He serves as a Director of eLoyalty, Fandango Media, LLC and All Covered, Inc. He has been Independent Director at Netflix, Inc. since June 1, 1999 and serves as its Lead Independent Director. He has been a Director of Avvo, Inc. since July 29, 2015, Swagbucks and IMX Exchange, Inc. since March 1998. He served as a Director of TechTarget, Inc. from May 2004 to July 8, 2016 and its Lead Independent Director from May 2007 to July 8, 2016. He serves as Director of Vice Media and Prodege, LLC. He serves as a Board of Trustees of Northwestern University, the Board of Trustees at the Menlo School and the Stanford Athletic Board. He has been Member of the Board of Trust of The Vanderbilt University Board of Trust since July 1, 2014. He served as a Director of eHarmony, Inc. (formerly, eHarmony.com, Inc.). He served as a Director of Mattersight Corporation from February 2000 to May 17, 2007; Altiris Inc. since February 2002, Expedia, Inc. since August 2000, Inphonic, Inc. from June 2003 to October 13, 2006 and Autoweb.com, Inc. since May 1998. He served as a Director of SpringStreet, Inc., iVillage Inc. and Cruel World, Inc. He served as a Director of TheStreet, Inc. (formerly, TheStreet.com Inc.) until January 2009. His many years of experience in helping companies shape and implement strategy provide the Board of Directors with useful perspectives on matters such as risk management, compensation program structure and design, corporate governance, talent selection and management. He served as a Member of the Advisory Board of HRJ Capital. He has been a venture capitalist and technology investor for over 33 years. Mr. Hoag is a Trustee of Hoag Family Trust and a general partner and limited partner of Hamilton Investments Limited Partnership. He has M.B.A. degree from the University of Michigan and a B.A. Degree in Economics and Political Science from Northwestern University.

https://www.bloomberg.com/research/stocks/private/person.asp?personId=83188&privcapId=23267&previousCapId=32012&previousTitle=Netflix,%20Inc.

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