José Antonio Ortega Sánchez, the cardinal’s legal representative, presented the document last week in which he refers to possible violations of his and the archbishop’s rights by the attorney general’s office, the newspaper El Universal reported.
Ortega Sánchez also cited possible violations against members of the Sandoval Íñiguez family; they are among those involved in a previous inquiry by the federal investigators over illicit funds.
Bishop José Guadalupe Martín Rábago of Leon, vice president of the Mexican episcopal conference, recently criticized a campaign by vested interests to discredit the Church. As an example he mentioned the unfounded accusations of money laundering leveled against Cardinal Sandoval, successor of the slain Cardinal Juan Jesús Posadas Ocampo.
For his part, Ortega Sánchez said that behind this investigation is an attempt to silence a sector that is insisting on finding out the truth about the 1993 assassination of Cardinal Posadas. The Posadas case was reopened in 2001, in the face of evidence of a conspiracy.
