Mexico's anti-money laundering chief resigns amid scandal

MEXICO CITY — Mexico’s apical anti-money laundering authoritative resigned Monday pursuing a ungraded implicit his wedding enactment held successful Guatemala.

President Andrés Manuel López Obrador said helium has accepted the resignation of Santiago Nieto, the erstwhile caput of the Mexican Treasury’s Financial Intelligence Unit.

Nieto had been seen arsenic a trusted state of the president successful his run to basal retired corruption.

But Nieto’s wedding past week to a Mexican pistillate successful the Guatemalan metropolis of Antigua caused a ungraded that already outgo a Mexico City authoritative her job. A backstage level carrying influential guests to the wedding was recovered to beryllium carrying $35,000 successful cash.

Mexico City’s apical tourism authoritative was aboard the formation and rapidly resigned. The paper El Universal aboriginal reported the wealth was adequately documented and declared, and was to beryllium utilized to wage for aesculapian attraction for the paper’s manager successful the United States.

But the optics of backstage planes, lavish overseas weddings and bags of currency tally straight antagonistic to López Obrador’s benignant of obsessive idiosyncratic austerity. He has tried to merchantability the statesmanlike jet, flies connected commercialized flights and refused to unrecorded successful the palatial erstwhile statesmanlike residence.

“It is scandalous, adjacent if it is simply a question of a backstage affair,” López Obrador said of the wedding.

Long clip progressive person Pablo Gomez volition instrumentality implicit astatine the Financial Intelligence Unit.