stepped down from public office in 1992. Nonetheless, Salinasalso rejected this charge in the course of the interrogation. "This money did not come from and has nothing to do with any activity related to my workas a public official; in other words, it is not dirty money, it is completely lawful...there was neverany situation with the corruption in the devaluation of the Peso or abuse of power in the institutionswhere I worked as a public official.12 This was the explanation given by Salinas for the originsof the 100-million-dollars. According to Salinas, the plan was to bring together a group of businessman friends whowould put a "financial mass" together outside of Mexico, for reasons of safety and in order not toremain aloof from the political toils of President Salinas's term in office. Some people invested inthe form of loans, others as seed money for various projects. One of the first questions: " In whose name were these accounts opened?" Initially withsome confusion, then with greater clarity, Salinas began to provide facts and remember details ofthe transactions. With his answers to a dozen questions on the same point, after thinking, repeatinghimself and tendering a few names that were then supplemented with others, Salinas provided anx-ray of his Swiss fortune. At Banque Pictet, headquarters in Geneva, an account in the name of Juan GuillermoGomez Gutierrez. There was another before, now closed, under the fictitious name of Juan JoseGonzalez Cadena. There should be another under the name of Juan Manuel Gomez Gutierrez, areal person.13 Margarita Nava Sanchez was one account holder for a group of accounts thatexisted between 1989 and 1993. An account at Julius Baer Bank in Zurich in the name of Raul Salinas de Gortari, andanother in the name of a company, Novatone.14 Applications to open these accounts weresubmitted from Mexico. A number of accounts at Citibank, Zurich. Salinas could not say howmany account holders there wer...
