Mexico

has opened an investigation into the assets of Manuel Bartlett , head of the National Electricity Company (CFE) , according to the Public Administration Ministry , which investigates complaints against public servants.

On Monday, the government corruption watchdog said the investigation into Bartlett ’s “ declaration of assets and interests” follows an anonymous citizen complaint .

Mexican journalists Areli Quintero and Carlos Loret de Mola last month reported that Bartlett had built up a real estate portfolio comprising 25 properties worth MXN $800 million , far more than the assets reported in his public declaration.

“As I said before, the information regarding properties attributed to me is false. My financial statement is in order,” Bartlett said on Twitter .

“The ( Public Administration Ministry) has opened an investigation and I will present all the documentation and information that is required of me,” he added.

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President López Obrador

has expressed support for Bartlett despite accusations he improperly accumulated nearly two dozen luxury properties.

It was the president who tapped Bartlett , a veteran politician with a controversial past, to lead Mexico’s state-owned power utility .

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Manuel Bartlett's past

Bartlett

, a former member of the long-ruling Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) , is well known in Mexico for announcing on election day in 1988 , when he served as Interior Minister , that the vote-tabulating computers had crashed as the main opposition candidate was in the lead.

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When the computers came back online, the PRI ’s candidate had won, drawing accusations of fraud from critics .

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