Alejandro Gertz Manero

Alejandro Gertz Manero
Attorney General (Mexico)
Assumed office
18 January 2019
Nominated byAndrés Manuel López Obrador
Preceded byOffice established
Succeeded byVacant
1st Secretary of Public Security
In office
1 December 2000 – 3 June 2004
PresidentVicente Fox
Preceded byOffice established
Succeeded byRamón Martín Huerta
Personal details
Born (1939-10-31) 31 October 1939 (age 85)
Mexico City, Mexico
EducationEscuela Libre de Derecho (LLB)
National Autonomous University of Mexico (PhD)
ProfessionLawyer and politician
Gertz Manero meets with U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas at FGR Headquarters in Mexico City in June 2021.

Alejandro Gertz Manero (born 31 October 1939) is a Mexican lawyer and Attorney General of Mexico. He served as Secretary of Public Security during part of Vicente Fox's government. From 2009 to 2012 he served as Deputy of the LXI Legislature of the Mexican Congress representing the State of Mexico.[1]

Controversies

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  • In 2022 he was accused of abusing his position as Federal Prosecutor for a personal vendetta, illegally persecuting and jailing Alejandra Cuevas and Laura Moran for the death of his brother Federico Gertz in 2015.[2]
  • He was accused of influence trafficking and criminal association by the former Counsel to the President, Julio Scherer Ibarra.[3]
  • He owns several real estate properties in Madrid, Ibiza, Paris, New York, and Los Angeles, and bought 122 luxury vehicles.[4]
  • In 2021 he was admitted to the Mexican National Researchers System by a special committee, after having tried unsuccessfully for 11 years due to insufficient scientific output.[5] Writer Guillermo Sheridan showed evidence of plagiarism in a biography of Guillermo Prieto published by Gertz Manero, which was also reported by a group of 77 researchers.[6][7]
  • When he was Public Safety Secretary in the government of Vicente Fox, Gertz Manero was detained by DEA and ATF when he landed in New York in an official Mexican government plane, carrying a false passport and $50,000 dlls in cash. In 2022 the USA government opened another investigation on him.[8]

References

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  1. ^ "Perfil del legislador" (in Spanish). Legislative Information System. Retrieved 16 December 2014.
  2. ^ Ureste, Manu (2022-03-28). "Cronología del caso Gertz-Cuevas: un conflicto de 7 años que podría llegar a su fin". Animal Político (in Spanish). Archived from the original on 2022-04-15. Retrieved 2022-04-15.
  3. ^ Monroy, Jorge (24 April 2022). "Acusan de tráfico de influencias al fiscal Gertz Manero". El Economista. Archived from the original on 2022-04-25. Retrieved 2022-05-15.
  4. ^ "Alejandro Gertz Manero: los autos y casas de lujo en las ciudades más exclusivas del fiscal mexicano". infobae (in European Spanish). 29 March 2022. Archived from the original on 2022-05-15. Retrieved 2022-05-15.
  5. ^ Guillén, Beatriz (2021-06-10). "El fiscal Gertz maniobra para entrar en el Sistema Nacional de Investigadores tras ser rechazado durante 11 años". El País México (in Spanish). Archived from the original on 2022-05-15. Retrieved 2022-05-15.
  6. ^ Sheridan, Guillermo (2021-07-06). "Gertz Manero, a la sombra del plagio". El Universal (in Spanish). Archived from the original on 2022-05-15. Retrieved 2022-05-15.
  7. ^ Toche, Nelly (31 October 2021). "Investigadores solicitan al SNI revisar presunto plagio de Alejandro Gertz Manero". El Economista. Archived from the original on 2022-05-15. Retrieved 2022-05-15.
  8. ^ Riva Palacio, Raymundo (27 April 2022). "Investiga EU a Gertz". El Financiero (in Spanish). Archived from the original on 2022-05-15. Retrieved 2022-05-15.
Political offices
Preceded by
New office
Secretary of Public Security
2000–2004
Succeeded by
Preceded by Attorney General of Mexico
2018–present
Incumbent