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Thursday 28 of March 2024

PGR Considers Subpoena for Julión Álvarez


In this Oct. 18, 2012 file photo, Julión Álvarez performs at the 2012 Billboard Mexican Music Awards at the Shrine Auditorium, in Los Angeles,photo: Invision/Emilio Flores, via AP
In this Oct. 18, 2012 file photo, Julión Álvarez performs at the 2012 Billboard Mexican Music Awards at the Shrine Auditorium, in Los Angeles,photo: Invision/Emilio Flores, via AP
Julión Álvarez's name appeared on a U.S. Treasury Department list for alleged connections to a drug cartel

The Attorney General’s Office (PGR) is not ruling out the possibility of issuing a subpoena for singer Julión Álvarez for alleged connections to drug lord Raúl Flores Hernández.

Álvarez’s name appeared on a sanctions list by the U.S. Treasury Department alongside soccer star Rafael Márquez Álvarez and at least 40 other people with alleged connections to Flores Hernández’s cartel.

PGR Deputy Attorney General for Regional Control, Penal Procedures and Amparos (Mexican legal process that protects citizens and their basic human rights) Gilberto Higuera Bernal said that appropriate steps will be taken after their investigation is over and that the PGR has “the ability to subpoena whoever is necessary.”

In the case of Márquez Álvarez, Higeura Bernal said that “the presumption of innocence must be considered, as it is key in our justice system.”