FILE PHOTO: Mexico's outgoing president Enrique Pena Nieto looks on as new President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador (not pictured) takes an oath at the Congress in Mexico City, Mexico December 1, 2018. REUTERS/Henry Romero
MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador on Wednesday ordered an investigation into allegations the former government irregularly awarded lucrative contracts to a firm reportedly owned by the family of his predecessor, Enrique Pena Nieto.
Between 2013 and 2018 Pena Nieto's government awarded $640 million in contracts to Plasti-Esteril, a firm founded by his family in 1991, and medical supply company Baxter International Inc, according to Mexican newspaper El Universal.
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