Doña Elvira explained to me that her son Leonel worked in security for the company. He had seen two men manipulate the van the night before the accident, recorded them and then disappeared. In reality, he survived a beating and was hiding in a rehabilitation clinic in Puebla under another name.
The pressure to sign and a strategic decision
Shortly after, Mauricio and Rebeca Salinas, the company’s lawyer, arrived with a black folder. They announced that the board had appointed him as interim director and required me to sign a wife’s consent authorizing the sale of the company. They threatened me that hospital bills would devour my house, and even hinted at asking for the revocation of my right to decide on Gabriel’s treatment.
I didn’t sign. I pretended not to understand, asked for a night to “accept reality,” and photographed each document with my phone. I detected altered dates, blurred notarial seals and a sales authorization that had never passed through Gabriel’s hands.
The silent investigation
At five in the morning I called Natalia Fuentes, my former colleague and current prosecutor in financial crimes. His advice was clear: don’t confront, let them feel safe. The investigators obtained a warrant and entered platform 7. In a locker they found a cell phone stained with grease, access logs and a memory card hidden in an electrical panel.
The video showed Mauricio ordering the mechanic: “Weaken it enough so that it fails on the road. Gabriel can’t get there with the auditors.” Rebeca handed over an envelope and laughingly commented that the wife would sign anything if they told her about the hospital debts. Apocryphal invoices and transfers for 18 million pesos to a shell company called Corona Norte Inversiones also appeared. Gabriel had discovered the embezzlement three days before the accident and had secretly summoned federal auditors.
