Two properties on this island that had been seized since 2018 were returned to former Governor Roberto Borge Angulo, their co-owner, who remains imprisoned in a Morelos prison accused of various crimes committed during his administration in Quintana Roo.
According to real documents reviewed by Proceso in a note by Octavio Martínez, the release order came from the Quintana Roo Tax Administration Service (SATQ), currently under the control of officials aligned with Morena.
In 2018, following instructions from a Chetumal Control Judge and at the request of the then Ministry of Finance and Planning (Sefiplan), seven properties belonging to the former governor and his family were seized to prevent their sale or transfer. The properties were located in Chetumal, Playa del Carmen, and Cozumel, as part of the investigation into the squandering of state assets during Borge’s six-year term (2011-2016).
The former governor was accused of complicity with Claudia Romanillos Villanueva, former director of the Institute of Real Estate Assets of Public Administration (IPAE), whose properties were also seized.
However, records from the Public Registry of Property and Commerce (RPPC) show that since February of this year, two plots of land in the coastal area of Cozumel were released to the Borge family, seven years after they were seized by court order.
These are the properties located at 660 Juárez Avenue and 399 Rafael E. Melgar Avenue and 5th Street, both in Cozumel. With this release, the former governor’s family can once again access the properties.
Last July, a Morelos Court of Appeals modified the former governor’s legal classification from an accomplice to a criminal leader for the crime of using illicit funds, having sold 22 properties with an estimated damage to the treasury of more than 900 million pesos.
Roberto Borge Angulo also figures in the controversy over the concession of drinking water services to the Aguakán company, along with the former mayor of Solidaridad and former gubernatorial candidate Mauricio Góngora Escalante, who was also imprisoned and now boasts close ties to the Morena party, from where he is seeking to reposition himself politically in Playa del Carmen.
Source: caribepeninsular
