Alfonso Caso This is Me

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   Published on: 8/17/2001   Last Visited: 5/27/2002

   The Secretary of Control and Administrative Development (Secodam) and the federal Attorney General's office are looking into the affairs of Alfonso Caso, the former director of the Mexico City Metro System and of the government-owned city electricity firm Luz y Fuerza del Centro.
   
   Caso and other officials are being investigated over 800,000 dollars' worth of kickbacks they may have received from contracts awarded to the French company Alsthom, one of the world's leading suppliers of leading-edge equipment in telecommunications, energy, and transport.
   
   Secodam officials declined to give more details, but sources say it is a "broad" investigation.
   
   The Attorney General's Special Unit against Organized Crime is investigating to see whether money laundering is involved in the case. Information from the Swiss government about "suspicious accounts" triggered the investigation earlier this year.
   
   Caso resigned from the board of Luz y Fuerza just two weeks ago, citing "personal reasons."
   
   The investigation may revive a controversy involving Alsthom and the Metro system that dates back to 1997, when Caso was appointed director of Metro by then-mayor Oscar Espinosa Villarreal.