Former Mexican senator hit with criminal charges tied to energy reform

Mexican prosecutors on Tuesday filed criminal charges against a former senator who under the previous government helped to pass a major energy reform which President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador has attacked as tainted by corruption. Prosecutors charged Jorge Lavalle, a senator with the center-right National Action Party (PAN) during the 2012-2018 administration, with criminal association, bribery and using illicit funds, judicial authorities said. Lavalle was closely involved in crafting constitutional changes in the Senate for reforms which opened up Mexico's energy market to private capital between 2013 and 2014.

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