Family disputes blacksmith’s fuel-theft arrest
Original reporting: El Diario de Chihuahua
What happened
Relatives of Rodolfo Hernández Sánchez say he never agreed to become a shareholder in Petronucloe Servicios and dispute company records describing him as a petroleum engineer. They are seeking an explanation for his arrest by the FGR.
Reporting and context
Relatives of Rodolfo Hernández Sánchez, a blacksmith from Benito Juárez in San Fernando, Chiapas, are challenging his arrest by Mexico’s federal Attorney General’s Office (FGR) in a fuel-theft case linked to a Veracruz company. According to El Diario de Chihuahua, the family says he never agreed to become a shareholder in Petronucloe Servicios and wants authorities to explain how his name entered its records.
His wife, Martha Claudia Pérez Gutiérrez, told Grupo REFORMA that Hernández studied through secondary school and worked as a municipal police officer until 2019. She disputes company records describing him as a petroleum engineer. She said his voter identification card was the only document connecting him to the business; his son said other papers bore a signature resembling his grandfather’s, but denied that his father signed them.
Pérez said two agents initially approached their home seeking blacksmithing work. In her account, they returned on October 14 at about 9:30 a.m., put Hernández into a vehicle ostensibly to take him to a job, then transferred him between vehicles while taking him toward Veracruz. She also disputes an accusation that he rented a vessel used to store fuel. The family says he has never left Benito Juárez and questions the alleged link to a fuel-theft scheme roughly 547 kilometers away.
El Diario de Chihuahua reported that relatives and residents demonstrated in Tuxtla Gutiérrez, marching along Central Avenue to the Chiapas government palace. They appealed to Governor Eduardo Ramírez and President Claudia Sheinbaum for intervention.
The report cites a Grupo REFORMA search of the Public Registry of Commerce identifying Juan Pedro Valentín Santos Morales as Petronucloe Servicios’ other shareholder and Jorge Alberto Padilla Acevedo as its general representative for litigation and collection matters. The company was incorporated in Reynosa, Tamaulipas, on February 1, 2019, with initial capital of 300,000 pesos, to excavate, extract and maintain oil wells in Mexico and abroad. Its records describe Hernández as a married petroleum engineer from San Fernando, a description his family contests.
Original report: El Diario de Chihuahua.