The national president of the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI), Alejandro Alito Moreno, owns a large strip of beach in the exclusive area of Champotón, in the state of Campeche, which he acquired at 33 cents per square meter, when the current price in the area ranges between 1,250 and 1,500 pesos, according to the land concession title published this Monday by the newspaper Reforma.
According to the investigation, in 2014 Alejandro Moreno bought a 300,000 square meter plot of land in the coastal area of Champotón, a municipality adjacent to the capital of Campeche, for 100,000 pesos (about 5,600 dollars) and its current value amounts to 450 million pesos.
The PRI leader obtained the powers to use, occupy and exploit this 300-hectare beach from the Ministry of Environment and Natural Resources (Semarnat) since April 29, 2016, already being governor of Campeche, granted by Mariana Boy, the then general director of the Federal Maritime-Terrestrial Zone and Coastal Environments of the federal agency and today leader of the Green Ecologist Party of Mexico and environmental prosecutor of the Government of Mexico City.
The controversial PRI leader has been accused on numerous occasions of illicit enrichment. A few days ago, Reforma revealed images of a luxury mansion worth 9 million pesos that would also be owned by Alito in the State of Chiapas.
The current governor of Campeche, Layda Sansores, denounced in May 2022 that the PRI leader has bought luxury cars, in addition to the fact that during his term as governor of Campeche, from 2015 to 2019, he had luxury offices. Additionally, the state prosecutor reported that Moreno received a salary of 120,000 pesos per month (about 6,700 dollars), so the department under his charge would investigate him for the crimes of use of resources of illicit origin.
Alito Moreno’s beach is located in the Playa Esmeralda area in Champotón, and next to it is the Aak Bal residential and tourist complex, started in the Vicente Fox government in 2005 when the Spanish company Mall acquired a 300-hectare plot of land to build a 500-room hotel and more than 1,000 luxury apartments with 2.5 kilometers of beach, according to the Reforma report.
Source: elpais
