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Sheinbaum Keeps Ebrard at Economy Ministry as Anticorruption Review Proceeds

The case will gauge whether legal checks on the use of state property work as designed.

Overview

  • President Claudia Sheinbaum said Marcelo Ebrard will stay on as economy secretary during an official review.
  • The Anticorruption and Good Governance Secretariat opened an administrative inquiry after complaints that Ebrard’s son stayed six months in 2021 at the Mexican ambassador’s residence in London.
  • Deputy Marcelo Torres Cofiño filed a criminal complaint with the federal prosecutor accusing Ebrard and former ambassador Josefa González Blanco of misuse of public resources.
  • The deputy said the alleged conduct could be embezzlement, abuse of authority, and illicit exercise of public service.
  • Sheinbaum praised Ebrard’s work on trade and investment and said the law requires the secretariat to examine any possible misuse of public property.