Overview
- The Supreme Court, which is set to take up the case Thursday, April 9, will consider a draft that would revoke Ricardo Salinas Pliego’s 2022 injunction and end the suit without a constitutional ruling.
- If approved, the decision would let the Financial Intelligence Unit keep using up to 10 years of his banking and asset data that it asked the banking regulator for in December 2021.
- The 2021 request covered Salinas Pliego and 78 other business figures named after the Pandora Papers leak pointed to offshore companies and possible tax evasion or money laundering.
- Justice Giovanni Figueroa Mejía’s draft says the data request is only an initial exchange between agencies that brings no sanctions or account freezes, so it does not cause a real legal harm to the businessman.
- The panel shifted after a March 12 recusal of Justice Lenia Batres over prior public comments, and a simple majority would be enough for the Court to adopt the draft.