MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - 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.
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