Brigadier General Eduardo León Trauwitz (born in Morelos[1]) served as the head of security for Pemex, Mexico's state-run oil company, from 2012 to 2019. He is now a fugitive of justice, accused of masterminding a scheme to steal fuel from the Mexican government.[2] He previously served as then-Governor Enrique Peña Nieto's personal bodyguard.[3]
Trauwitz graduated from Mexico's Military College in 1986 with a degree in Military Administration.[4] In 2010, he was promoted to a colonel. In November 2012, he was promoted again to the rank of brigadier general.[5] In March 2014, President Peña Nieto appointed Trauwitz head of the new Strategic Safeguard Subdirectorate, putting him in charge of maintaining Pemex's physical security and rooting out huachicoleros.[6] He led a force of 2,500 soldiers from Mexico's Army and Navy[7] while annual fuel theft from pipelines increased from $19 billion pesos worth of fuel to $30 billion pesos.[8]
References
edit- ^ "Promueven de grado a coronel cercano a Peña". El Siglo de Torreón. 2012-11-21. Retrieved 2019-07-24.
- ^ "Army general believed to have been No. 2 at Pemex fuel theft ring". Mexico News Daily. 2019-07-19. Retrieved 2019-07-24.
- ^ "Mexico probes state oil company's ex-security chief for fuel theft". France 24. 2019-01-09. Retrieved 2019-07-24.
- ^ "¿Quién es León Trauwitz, el general investigado por "huachicol"?". El Mexicano. 2019-06-08. Retrieved 2019-07-24.
- ^ "Las horas finales del general Trauwitz". Vanguardia. 2019-05-20. Retrieved 2019-07-24.
- ^ "¿Quién es el general Eduardo León Trauwitz, investigado por huachicoleo?". Diario de Queretaro. 2019-01-08. Retrieved 2019-07-24.
- ^ "El hombre fuerte de Peña fracasa en la defensa de los ductos de Pemex". Proceso. 2017-05-13. Retrieved 2019-07-24.
- ^ "Fracasa el hombre fuerte de Peña". El Diario. 2017-05-14. Retrieved 2019-07-24.
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