Juan Carlos Padilla addresses allegations regarding past professional ties

Juan Carlos Padilla Aguilar has publicly addressed allegations linking him to suspected irregularities involving companies owned by the Hernández Casillas brothers. During a presidential press conference on November 5, Mexico’s Secretary of Anticorruption and Good Government, Raquel Buenrostro, mentioned Padilla’s professional history with the brothers in the context of investigations into electoral body contracts.

Padilla has clarified that his professional relationship with José Alfredo Hernández Casillas was strictly limited to his time at the National Population Registry during the 1980s. He stated that their employment relationship ended in 1993, with their last contact occurring in 1994. Padilla maintains that he has had no knowledge of the business activities developed by his former collaborator in the decades following their professional association.