Mexico City, March 13 (teleSUR-RHC)-- The Mexican media network MVS fired two journalists Thursday who helped unveil the Mexican government's corruption scandal, which involved President Enrique Peña Nieto.
The same journalists also revealed a scandal involving a prostitution network run by the leader of the governing Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI), Cuauhtemoc Gutierrez de la Torre.
According to an MVS statement, Carmen Aristegui, one of the most respected journalists in Mexico, abused the network's trust after using their logo as part of a media alliance to support the new website Mexicoleaks. As a result, two of her team were sacked, though Aristegui remains in post.
The website aims to become a similar platform to Wikileaks, a place for whistleblowers to come together and have a safe platform to leak classified documents.
“This issue will have to be clarified at some point,” responded Aristegui to MVS’ claims during her radio show.
The scandal was based on Peña Nieto's acquisition of a mansion in Lomas de Chapultepec, in Mexico City, which had cost him some $7 million. That scandal led to another -- the relationship between Peña Nieto and the businessman Juan Armando Hinajosa, owner of the Higa Group.
