Rafael Olvera Amezcua had been accused of stealing hundreds of millions of dollars in...
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement said Thursday it deported a Mexican banker accused of laundering millions of dollars in San Antonio that was stolen from depositors.
Rafael Olvera Amezcua had for years fought against returning to Mexico, where ICE says he faces fraud charges and where he says he faces persecution. According to ICE, he came to the U.S. in 2014 on a work visa. His time in San Antonio was dogged by scandals involving the collapse of his savings and loan in Mexico, a massive real estate empire and COVID-19 relief funds.
Olvera Amezcua, 64, was turned over to Mexican authorities Wednesday at one of the international bridges in Laredo, ICE said in a news release. He’d been in detention since May 2019. His immigration attorney, San Antonio lawyer Javier Maldonado, said Thursday that Olvera Amezcua’s criminal charges are being pushed by “corrupt folks in Mexico.”
Maldonado, along with the Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund, had sued the Department of Homeland Security on Olvera Amezcua’s behalf demanding his release from ICE detention. Olvera Amezcua was at high risk of contracting COVID-19 and was not a flight risk, according to the lawsuit. At the same time, according to court records, Olvera Amezcua was requesting asylum.
“They certainly treated him differently and unnecessarily and unjustifiably prolonged his detention,” Maldonado said. “We’re disappointed. There was no reason for them to detain him that long. He was known to DHS for many years, so any claims that he might flee are just bogus.”found that companies connected to Olvera Amezcua owned 100 pieces of real estate here and in the Miami area.
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