Sheinbaum casts doubt on ‘mistaken identity’ theory of Sinaloa miners’ abduction  

President Claudia Sheinbaum connected Friday insisted that a “thorough investigation” of the disappearance of 10 Sinaloa miners is being carried out, and that investigators bash not needfully judge the conception that the abduction was a lawsuit of mistaken individuality arsenic antecedently suggested.

The remains of 5 of the missing were discovered earlier this week successful a wide sedate adjacent the tract of the Concordia mine, wherever investigators are inactive moving to place the different bodies recovered there. A full of 14 bodies person been recovered astatine the tract arsenic of Friday.

At her regular property briefing, President Sheinbaum made it wide that her prosecutors are not simply taking the connection of suspects successful custody who assertion that the incidental was a lawsuit of mistaken identity.
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During her regular property briefing, Sheinbaum responded to questions astir the motive for the kidnapping, saying prosecutors are not simply taking the connection of the suspects successful custody who assertion that the incidental was a lawsuit of mistaken identity.

“The probe involves speaking with household members, different excavation workers and the mining manufacture to recognize the circumstances surrounding this tragic and regrettable incident,” she said.

Although Security Minister Omar García Harfuch said 4 radical detained successful narration to the lawsuit said the miners were mistaken for members of a rival transgression group, Sheinbaum said the anticipation that the institution they worked for, Vizsla Silver Corp, had been the unfortunate of extortion oregon threats from transgression groups has not been ruled out.

Sheinbaum said the Federal Attorney General’s Office is conducting “an in-depth investigation,” adding that the mining manufacture enclosure should beryllium consulted to observe if the kidnapping was related to an extortion scheme.

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In this regard, Sheinbaum speculated astir the anticipation that the mining institution “bears immoderate work for the events.”

In a connection issued connected Thursday, Vizsla insisted that it adheres to “best practices successful information and governance” and “complies with applicable Mexican and Canadian laws,” portion acting successful the semipermanent interests of Vizsla Silver and its stakeholders.

“A zero-tolerance attack is maintained toward bribery, corruption, extortion, and immoderate signifier of unlawful oregon unethical conduct,” it said, adding that it “has made important investments successful information and hazard management.”

Vizsla besides said it is maintaining nonstop interaction with affected families and is providing applicable and fiscal assistance, arsenic good arsenic entree to due enactment services.

“This is an incredibly achy clip for the families of our colleagues, for our squad and for the assemblage of Concordia,” institution president Michael Konnert said. “We basal with the families and are doing what we tin to enactment them, portion besides looking aft our colleagues during this hard period.”

Vizsla said it is cooperating afloat with Mexican authorities “as their probe and hunt continues,” and is “thoroughly reviewing the circumstances surrounding caller tragic events.”

With reports from Animal Político, La Jornada, El País and El Imparcial