Zavala admits his companies got PEMEX contracts

They are documented in Compranet
Ten [contracts] were for Meta Data and one was for Hildebrado Inc.

ROBERTO GONZALEZ AMADOR, ROBERTO GARDUÑO Y FABIOLA MARTINEZ

Diego Zavala Foto Guillermo Sologuren

Diego Hildebrando Zavala Gomez del Campo admitted yesterday that their companies obtained contracts from Mexican Petroleum (PEMEX) while his brother-in-law, Felipe Calderón Hinojosa, current presidential candidate of the Party of National Action (PAN), was holder of the Secretariat of Energy, a position he occupied from September of 2003 to May of 2004.

Zavala Gómez del Campo, he of the state petroleum company, had insistently denied the contracts with PEMEX, are documented in the service of Compranet acquisitions, employee of the Secretariat of Public Accountability (SFP).

Diego Zavala, according to Compranet’s information, obtained 11 contracts for two of his companies: 10 of them for Meta Data SA de CV in October of 2003, a month after his brother-in-law entered the cabinet of president Vicente Fox, and another one more in January of 2004, in favor of Hildebrando SA of CV, the company founded by the two brothers in August of 1986.

Meta Data SA de CV got ten contracts from Mexican Petroleum 10, all via direct awarding - it is to say, without bidding and concluded the same day, the 7 of November of 2003, according to Compranet’s information. Goal Data, Felipe Calderón his brother-in-law’s company, sold PEMEX, according to the same source,  licensed software and training courses.