Segob must inform about mining companies linked to organized crime: INAI

The Ministry of the Interior (Segob) must inform about the mining companies allegedly linked to organized crime that operate in the port of Lázaro Cárdenas, Michoacán, the National Institute for Transparency, Access to Information and Protection Facts (INAI) determined.

In 2014 the federal government implemented a security strategy in the Port of Lázaro Cárdenas against the Knights Templar cartel. In September last year the then commissioner for Security of Michoacán, Alfredo Castillo, announced the seizure of seven mining companies and more than one million tons of ore illegally exploited.

A citizen requested to know that information, but the Interior Ministry said that the data were nonexistent and asked him to submit his request to the Ministry of Finance and the Ministry of Economy.

Unhappy with the answer the citizen filed a motion for review before the INAI, that backed his request and ordered the Ministry of the Interior to make an exhaustive investigation to provide the requested information.