of the Scientific and Technological Advisory Forum ( FCCT ) affirmed that the institution 's work has been in accordance with the law and called "surprising and unfounded" the accusations made by the Attorney General's Office ( FGR ) against the academics , accused of organized crime for alleged mismanagement of resources from the National Council for Science and Technology ( Conacyt ).
In a letter signed by José Antonio de la Peña Mena, José Luis Fernández Zayas, Juan Pedro Laclette San Román, Gabriela Dutrenit Bielous, José Franco and Julia Tagüeña Parga , they emphasized that the Forum is not a private company as the FGR stated, since "it was created by legal mandate in 2002."
Among the 31 academics accused by the government body, 22 held a position at the FCCT , some of them are Enrique Cabrera Mendoza, Julia Tagüeña Parga, Adriana Ramona Guerra, David García Junco Machado, Víctor Gerardo Carreón Rodríguez, Jesús Arturo Borja Tamayo, Rafael Ortega Reyes, María Dolores Sánchez Soler, Miguel Guajardo Mendoza and Luis Gabriel Torreblanca Rivera.
Given the nationwide situation, President Andrés Manuel López Obrador and Beatriz Gutiérrez Müller were attacked via a Twitter account belonging to a "security expert" named Aldo Alderete.
