Ricardo Márquez Blas, who works within the Supreme Court of Justice of the Nation (SCJN) He was arrested on the afternoon of Tuesday, October 22, by elements of the Investigative Police (PDI) after being accused of sexual abuse.
Márquez is the current coordinator of Strengthening in the Court and was apprehended when he was leaving his offices located on República de Uruguay Street, in the Cuauhtémoc mayor’s office.
Before, he was a collaborator of the former secretary Genaro García Luna (recently sentenced to 38 years in prison in the United States) and is currently recognized as an official close to the president of the Supreme Court, Norma Piña.
The events occurred in August when an employee of the jurisdictional body reported Ricardo “N” to the Public Ministrythe woman – who maintains her anonymous identity – accused him of having her violated in the court premises.
In addition, he provided several pieces of evidence, including WhatsApp messages in which Márquez boasted of contacts in the Court, so after being apprehended he was transferred to the East Male Preventive Prison.
In this regard, the Court reported that its official is being investigated by the General Investigation Unit for Administrative Responsibilities (UGIRA), due to an internal complaint against him. “All the precautionary measures determined by UGIRA were complied with from the first minute it ordered them.”
Last year, former president Andrés Manuel López Obrador pointed out to the Minister Norma Piña to employ a former collaborator of Genaro García Lunasentenced to 38 years in prison for drug trafficking in the US.
Who is Ricardo Márquez Blas, former collaborator of Genaro García Luna?
Ricardo Márquez Blas was Institutional Strengthening coordinator at the headquarters where he received a total net salary of 122,851 pesos per month.
The position is the result of an adjustment to the organic structure of the highest court headed by the minister Norma Piña to concentrate administration, security, logistics and protocol tasks in a new coordination.
According to a public version of his curricular career, Márquez Blas has more than 28 years of experience in design, development, implementation and evaluation of public security strategies and policies, crime prevention and information systems.
Before reaching the Supreme Court, Márquez Blas was head of the National Information Center of the Executive Secretariat of the National Public Security System (SNSP), and when Genaro García Luna He was sentenced to 38 years in prison in the US for drug traffickingBlas was in front of the office.
During Calderón’s six-year term he served as head of the Information Unit for Public Securitya position in which he directed the Technological Infrastructure and the Mexico Platform, a database that sought to make security research work in the country more efficient.
It was until 2023 that Márquez Blas held the position of coordinator of institutional strengthening, a position created by the minister president of the SCJN.
