For each registered kidnapping, three go unreported to authorities, says the Attorney General’s Office

Aurora Vega

Two kidnappings are reported per day, in 11 states, with more cases

So far this year, the Attorney General’s Office (PGR) made preliminary investigations into kidnapping 80 per month, exceeding 30 monthly reports generated from 2010 to December last year.

That is, the federal agency begins investigating two cases of plagiarism per day, regardless of which record the state attorneys.

According to the Statistical Information System of the PGR, the states with the highest incidence are Tamaulipas, Chihuahua, Coahuila, State of Mexico, Jalisco, Nayarit, Puebla, Guanajuato, Morelos, Guerrero and Mexico City.

Excelsior revealed yesterday that annually there is about 40 kidnapping gangs, and only in the Federal District, 20 organizations are of this type.

According to the PGR, the increase in the number of complaints shows that the public has regained confidence in the authorities. However, the prosecutor Marisela Morales said that for every case investigated three more that go unreported.

Mexico SOS, Alejandro Martí organization presiding, cautions that the dark figure is incalculable on kidnapping.

PGR recorded 80 kidnappings per month nationwide

Eleven states have higher concentrations of these allegations.

The Attorney General’s Office (PGR) began in 2012 as a monthly average 80 preliminary investigations into the kidnapping occurred in several states, records indicate Institutional Statistical Information System of the Federal agency.

This compares with previous years indicate that from 2010 to December 2011 were initiated in the Anti-Kidnapping Unit Office of Special Investigations on Organized Crime (OFDI) about 30 criminal investigations, regardless of the state attorneys started in.

Entities with more problematic for kidnapping rate are Tamaulipas, Chihuahua, Coahuila, Mexico State, Jalisco, Nayarit, Puebla, Guanajuato, Morelos, Guerrero and Mexico City.

For PGR, this increase in complaints of abduction is that citizens have greater confidence in the federal authorities to denounce and thus is called lowering the black number that exists in this high impact offense.

The dependence leads Marisela Morales Ibáñez estimated that for every complaint of kidnapping are on average three more kidnappings go unreported.

While Mexico SOS organization, headed Alejandro Martí, states that the dark figure of kidnapping in the country is invaluable, as there are countless cases of kidnapping were reported to the authorities for fear that the police or the authorities can be accomplices of the hijackers.

In an interview, Alejandro Marti said that people need to denounce the kidnappings, because it is the only opportunity for families to recover their relatives alive.

The Citizen Council for Public Security and Criminal Justice found that in 2011 BC there were two thousand 979 kidnappings: over eight kidnappings day, on average.

In Mexico, according to the PGR, the possibility that a relative is rescued alive after abduction is 95%, except in those cases where the kidnap gang is intended not only to obtain financial resources but meet revenge, or because the perpetrator knows who he plagiarized.

The agency states that in the event of a hijacking is paramount that the family contact the authorities immediately since the early hours in which a person has been deprived of their liberty are crucial.

Archundia Rodrigo Barrientos, head of the Anti-Kidnapping Unit SIEDO, states that the modus operandi of the kidnappers has changed because now kidnappers bands made illegal based on the appearance of a car or the clothes she wears a person, no matter whether you have funding or not, so low amounts requested to commit as many crimes.

According to federal officials, the Anti-Kidnapping Unit PGR has 90% effectiveness and success in rescuing people who have been deprived of their liberty unlawfully.

Barrientos Archundia accurate the profile of Mexican kidnapper has a low educational level, belongs to a low economic level, in addition to their family life has developed in an atmosphere of aggression and violence in areas where the crime rate is high .

The official said that because of the arrest of dangerous gangs of kidnappers managed to obtain the forfeiture of property that were seized from the kidnappers and whose money from the sale of the property was given to the people who made the ransom.

“They have won two asset forfeiture lawsuits on behalf of victims of kidnapping. In both cases, these buildings that once served the kidnappers, “the official said.

Seizures

The PGR said that they have won two asset forfeiture lawsuits on behalf of victims of abduction:

Archundia Rodrigo, head of the Anti-Kidnapping Unit SIEDO, explained that since May 2011 there have been declarations of abandonment of property in favor of the federal government in the amount of 16 million 929 thousand 674 pesos.

Among the kidnapping gangs that were dismantled the organization is the M-12, whose leader conducting negotiations from criminal Edomex.

The case of The Tolmex, following the kidnapping of two victims was found that the main operators was Malinali Jaquelin Gálvez Ruiz, The Mali, arrested with five members.

Another important thing is the arrest of Mario Vallarta Cisneros, founder of the band The Zodiac, led by Mario Vallarta Cisneros, Israel Vallarta Cisneros and his girlfriend French national Florence Cassez, among others.