The newspaper also reported that Luis Felipe Saidén Ojeda submitted his irrevocable resignation as head of the Directorate of Public Security, Traffic, and Firefighters of Cancún, Quintana Roo, and accused Juan Ignacio García Zalvidea of corruption. García Zalvidea would return on August 26, 2024, to his duties as mayor at the Municipal Palace, as ordered by the Supreme Court of Justice of the Nation (SCJN).
Saidén Ojeda stated that 140 agents, including high-ranking officers and riot police, almost all from Yucatán, would leave the corporation with him when García Zalvidea returned to office.
Elaborating on the acts of corruption he claims García Zalvidea committed, Saidén Ojeda recalled that eight months earlier, the mayor “asked me by phone to intercept a convoy of judicial officers transporting a prisoner,” whose name he did not want to reveal.
“A similar episode occurred in January 2003,” Saidén added, “when there was a confrontation between judicial and municipal police, led by the director and operational deputy director of Public Security, Miguel Quintana Morales and Silverio Córdova, respectively, who opposed the capture of Alejandro Chacón Mantilla.”
Previously, Luis Felipe Saidén Ojeda had been accused of recruiting former police officers from Yucatán (where he had been head of the Secretariat of Protection and Traffic) and bringing them as “shock groups” against supporters and collaborators of García Zalvidea.
For his part, the governor of Quintana Roo, Joaquín Hendricks, accused the mayor of altering invoices, “such as one for an internal radio communication system for $15 million, although the price is $7 million.”
Source: Diario de Yucatan
