Guillermo Turrent and Javier Gutiérrez, who worked for the state electricity company during the Peña Nieto administration, have invoked rights that protect them from self-incrimination
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A transcript of a recent hearing held in a court in Texas shows Guillermo Turrent and Javier Gutiérrez failed to convince a judge to dismiss CFE International’s case against them
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The case between Mexico’s state-owned energy utility and an obscure American natural gas company continues to advance in US courts, while it remains paralyzed in the Mexican justice system
An investigation by EL PAÍS reveals how an obscure US company, just months after being created, began winning multimillion-dollar contracts from a subsidiary of Mexico’s Federal Electricity Commission (CFE) soon after the opening of the country’s electricity sector. The ties between Guillermo Turrent, a key executive during the Enrique Peña Nieto administration, and the founders of Whitewater Midstream, tell the story of a pursuit of profits in recently liberalized energy markets
