Free Response in Opposition to Motion - District Court of Arizona - Arizona

(STAMP OF THE MEXICAN UNITED STATES)

LAWYER'S OFFICE G E N E R A L O F T H E R E P U B L I C SUBLAWYER'S OFFICE OF INVESTIGATION SPECIALIZING IN ORGANIZED DELINQUENCY UNIT (office) SPECIALIZING IN INVESTIGATION OF OPERATIONS WITH RESOURCES OF ILLICIT ORIGIN AND OF FALSIFICATION OR ALTERATION OF MINT. MATTER: ONE ANSWERS REQUEST LISA BURNETT DIRECTOR OF THE DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, WASHINGTON A.D. Present. In this Unit Specializing in Investigation of Operations with Resources of Illicit Origin and of Falsification or Alteration of mint, there is integrating the Previous Inquiry number PGR/SIEDO/UEIOFM/015/04, against JAIME EDUARDO ROSS CASTILLO, ALBERTO ABED SCHEKAIBAN Y OTROS, for the crime of Operations with Resources of Illicit Origin (money laundry), in which facts committed in the United States of America are related. Of the investigations that take I finish for this Authority, there have been obtained diverse information, which principal target is to credit the constitutive conducts of " wash of assets " (money laundry), where links to ALBERTO ABED SCHEKAIBAN on his completely participation, nevertheless, of the convincing means with which this Unit Specialize provided has been provided, it has not found in a reliable way his complete relation with the facts that are investigated. Derivative of the previous thing and for the sake of the fulfillment of the guarantees of exact application of the penal law and of legality, contemplated in the articles 14 and 16 of the Political Constitution of the Mexican United States, it is necessary to establish that to go ALBERTO ABED SCHEKAIBAN finished your request of a temporary detention and presentation, this Authority is legally unable, it for which although it is true, that our countries have been employed in a joint way at the present investigations and to the date it has been fulfilled in a complete way with the requests realized by this Country of the United States of America; also the fact it is that in our national territory it is necessary to observe in an obligatory way, the dispositions established in our penal laws, in which diverse procedures are stipulated to be able to limit to some person his most valuable guarantee that is his freedom.

Case 2:04-cv-00363-JWS

Document 157-6

Filed 03/08/2006

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The legal procedure to be able to detain a person establishes a series of obligatory rules to continuing, and which all those, this Authority lacks to be able to realize an act as transcendent as it is the detention of ALBERTO ABED SCHEKAIBAN who has been indicated only as supposed participant of the commission of a fact, that nevertheless, to the date there have not met the requisites that our law establishes to be able to go I finish his formal detention, since in the opposite case, this Authority would be realizing a violation to the individual guarantees of the mister ALBERTO ABED SCHEKAIBAN, for what, it is not possible to go finish your request. On the other hand it is necessary of this Authority to point out to you that with regard to your request of diverse information related to JAIME ROSS AND ALBERTO ABED, to the date has already sent to this Department of Justice of the United States of America, all the excellent information with which this Specializing Unit is provided and which any fact that should be considered to be important for the present investigations, will be sent to the briefness to you. The previous thing with foundation in the articles 21, 102 and 133 of the Political Constitution of the Mexican United States; 1, 2, 4, 10 of the Agreement of Cooperation between the Mexican United States and the United States of America on Juridical Mutual Assistance; 2 ° fraction 11, 45, 59, 60 and 180 of the Federal Code of Penal Procedures; paragraph "A", of the Political Constitution of the Mexican United States; 2 ° fraction II, 168 and 180 of the Federal Code of Penal Procedures; 1, 2, 3, 4 fraction L paragraph "A" interjections b) and c), 9, 11 and 20 fraction the jerky IInd e) of the Organic Law of the Procuraduría General de la República; 2, 27 and 28 fraction the IIIrd and penultimate paragraph of his Regulation; seventh fraction the XIth of the Agreement N066/03 of the General Attorney of the Republic; first Fraction-IV number 3'y articles first, the second, sixth and the seventh transitory in the Agreement A/068/03, both of C. Attorney General de la República. Without another individual, I repeat to you the safety of my most attentive and distinguished consideration.

Mexico, D.F. on February 24, 2006.
ATTENTIVELY THE G E N E R A L COORDINATOR.

Case 2:04-cv-00363-JWS

Document 157-6

Filed 03/08/2006

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