Carlos Slim’s office requests official clarification from Frank Report

Carlos Slim Helú , 79, is the fifth-richest person in the world, according to Forbes’ listing of The World’s Billionaires, with him and his family having a net worth estimated at $63.1 billion.

He derived his fortune from his holdings in a number of Mexican companies through his conglomerate, Grupo Carso.

And Frank Report received correspondence this week from none other than the Corporate Communication Manager of Grupo Carso – Renato Flores Cartas, who wrote to inform me and my associate editor, Joe O’Hara, that a story I had written was incorrect.

That story is Source: Billionaire Carlos Slim trying to buy off Emiliano Salinas’ indictment via Clinton.

In that story, published in September 2018, which Slim’s spokesman says is ‘fake news’, I reported that a source said, “Discussions are ongoing between the Carlos Slim Foundation and the Clinton Foundation about a multi-million dollar payment … a back-room deal to buy away the threatened indictment of Emiliano Salinas by U.S. DOJ prosecutors in the NXIVM criminal racketeering case”. 

May 21, 2019

Mr. Frank Parlato,

Editor in Chief, www.frankreport.com

I am writing to you about your information “Source: Billionaire Carlos Slim trying to buy off Emiliano Salinas’ indictment via Clinton”.

All references in this information about Mr. Carlos Slim is absolutely false, based solely on speculation and we were never been consulted previously, according to the minimum journalistic standards.

Relations between Carlos Slim Foundation and Clinton Foundation start since 2008. On this year, bout Institution and the Canadian businessman, Frank Giustra, created a Found to social investment in México, Colombia and Peru, the resources never have a United States as destination.

According with this information we ask you the full clarification in your website of this of that fake news.

Sincerely.

Renato Flores Cartas,

Corporate Communication Manager, Grupo Carso.