By stating that “It’s not a political issue”the President Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo He assured this Thursday in “La Mañanera del Pueblo” that Simón Levy was detained by Interpol in Lisbon, Portugal, and indicated that, as he has the nationality of a European country, he was released, but was not allowed to leave that country.
The Head of the federal Executive rejected that Simón Levy is in Washington, United States, and that it has suffered an attack, as the businessman and former Mexican official stated yesterday in interviews with the media.
In the National Palace, an official document from Portugal was projected informing the arrest and presentation of Simón Levy before the Court of Appeal of Lisbon.
“This person arrives in Portugal and is detained there. As he also has the nationality of a European country, he is released. He is not deported, let’s say, he is released and there he has to follow all the processes,” said the President.
“It is true that they arrested him and in reality, well, it was not, he was lacking in the truth, let’s put it that way, the fact that he was not in Portugal, but was in Washington (…). It has nothing to do with a political matter, nor anything because, but simply, because there were two investigation folders.”
In the National Palace, an official document was projected in Portuguese detailing the arrest of Simón Levy and which was presented to the Court of Appeal of Lisbon. Portugal.
“This is a document from Lisbon, it is in Portuguese and shows the arrest: ‘By means of this email – it is obviously the translation of the document – it is reported that citizen Simón ‘N’ was detained on October 28, 2025 upon entering national territory by virtue of an international arrest warrant, having been presented before the Court of Appeal of Lisbon today.”
“So it is an official document from Portugal that talks about the arrest. “He seems to have European nationality, from some European country, we are not sure if it is Portugal or some other country, and therefore they release him, but they do not allow him to leave the country.”
The federal president explained that the Red File of the Interpol It is for two arrest warrants derived from investigation folders in Mexico City in 2021 and 2022; one of them was placed by a private individual, for an attack, and the other for the violation of an environmental standard in which there was an irregularity.
“These are two arrest warrants that have been coming for a long time,” said Claudia Sheinbaum.
“What happens with those arrest warrants? The Attorney General’s Officebased on the orders that the Mexico City Prosecutor’s Office had, they released a red token called, which Interpol, since it activates, has permanently activated.”
In the Treasury room he was asked: “Yesterday in the interviews he was giving he said it was political persecution, he said he had suffered an attack.”
“It has nothing to do with it, in fact, the Prosecutor’s Office has to explain why so far this arrest has been fine, but there is a red card.”
“It has nothing to do with a political issue or anything, because, but simply, because “There are two research folders that existed since that time”he responded.
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