Alonso Ancira
Alonso Ancira Elizondo is a Mexican businessman who is the controlling shareholder and chairman of Altos Hornos de Mexico. He purchased AHMSA from the Mexican Government in 1991, when the government privatized the steel industry. In March 2006, he was elected as president of the Iron and Steel Mexican Chamber for the years 2006-2007.
Ancira was arrested in Spain by the Interpol in May 2019 in connection with the 2014 sale of a fertilizer plant to PEMEX, the Mexican-state oil company. According to bank records he is bankrupt and is billions in debt. Ancira and other family members have been charged with corruption, money laundering, fraud and other crimes; he bribed with two million dollars Emilio Lozoya. The bank accounts of Altos Hornos and Emilio Lozoya Austin, the former CEO of PEMEX, were frozen 24 hours earlier.
