Cancun, Q.R. — A man and woman accused of extorting a local ferry company based in Cancun are in custody. The pair, identified by police as María Frine “N” and Jorge Luis “N”, are accused of extorting a company partner in July. Police said one of those arrested, Jorge Luis “N”, was an administrator for the company.
The State Attorney General (FGE) said police have executed an arrest warrant against María Frine “N” and Jorge Luis “N” in Cancun for threatening a shareholder regarding an audit to track down 140 million pesos.
“The accused are being investigated for events that occurred starting July 3 of this year when the victim, a male shareholder of a shipping company where Jorge Luis “N” worked as an administrator, carried out an audit process to analyze the financial statements, detecting an unauthorized capital flow movement for the amount of 140 million pesos.
“This situation led to the victim receiving phone calls and messages on September 22, demanding that he stop the audit under the argument that there were “conflicting interests” and that he would be affected if he continued with the procedure.
“On September 26, the affected party received other calls ordering him not to continue with the audit since they were aware that he had not complied with the initial instruction to stop,” the FGE said.
“On the morning of September 30, one of the employees, who was in charge of the audit, was leaving his home located in the Cumbres Cancún subdivision when he was intercepted by two men riding a motorcycle.
“The men said they had a message for the victim while showing him a firearm.”
Authorities reported that the investigations carried out by the FGE confirmed that on September 18, María Frine “N” and Jorge Luis “N” met with their accomplice Héctor Alejandro “N”, who is also connected to the same company for extortion and drug dealing, in order to plan the actions to carry out the crime of extortion against the victim.
Héctor Alejandro “N”, who was the general manager of the ferry company based out of Cancun, was arrested October 22 and charged with extortion and drug dealing.
