Official Claims Proof Salinas Brother Killed Massieu
	  id AAA22959; Tue, 30 Sep 1997 00:54:45 -0400


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    Copyright 1997 by Agence France-Presse
    Sun, 28 Sep 1997 19:21:00 PDT

   MEXICO CITY, Sept 28 (AFP) - Sufficient evidence exists to
uphold charges that the brother of former President Carlos Salinas
plotted the murder of a top official of Mexico's ruling party, a
senior official told the daily La Reforma Sunday.
   Assistant attorney general Jose Luis Ramos said there were
"sufficient elements to uphold" charges that Raul Salinas plotted
the 1994 killing of former head of the Institutional Revolutionary
Party (PRI), Jose Francisco Ruiz Massieu.
   Ramos also said Ruiz Massieu's brother, Mario, tried to "cover
for the former president's brother" by trying to derail the murder
investigation when, as an assistant attorney general, he was in
charge of the probe.
   Ramos said he hoped the investigative phase of the case against
Raul Salinas would be completed by the end of this year. Raul
Salinas is being held in a maximum-security prison.

 
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