Letter from a Mazatleco (a Native of Mazatlan)

THIS LETTER WAS POSTED IN SPANISH ALREADY, BUT IT IS IMPORTANT, FOR THOSE OF YOU THAT DO NOT READ SPANISH TO READ THIS ABOUT MANUEL CRISTERNA.

I have visited your web site where I see you have been complaining painfully about the fraud commited on you and your Partners by the crook, José Manuel Cristerna. I’m giving you this information because it might be helpful to your cause.

As you might understand, I can not give you my name because I’m related to the real estate business and fear that this crook and some other ones that I will also mention here might take reprisals against me.

First, I must say that the attorney that is handling the law suit against Cristerna made mistakes like he was just a beginner because he did not integrate the law suit correctly against this crook. If your attorney would have prepared the lawsuit correctly, this crook, Sr. Cristerna, would still be in jail, since the fraud in the current Criminal Law in Sinaloa and Mexico says that Fraud is a felony offense and that it should not allow the crook to get out of jail, even after paying bail and much less obtaining an appeal from the Federal Courts. The appeal obtained by this crook Cristerna was because of the mistakes made on the lawsuit prepared by your attorney.

This crook Cristerna came to Mazatlan from Oaxaca where he started working in the 90’s as a OPC for several developers of time share, mainly for Lic. Guerrero, owner of the Cerritos Resort.

In the year of 2005, when Marina Mazatlán was bought by Lic. Ernesto Echavarria Salazar, he sold a portion of a land known as La Isla de Marina Mazatlán to Mr. Barrenechea and Mr. Pluma. This crook Cristerna offered his services as an OPC to start selling time share at La Isla and at the same time Cristerna was working for this other crook named Luís Medina, owner of Marina del Rey and later, owner of Hotel Playa Maria, and in 2007 he sold this Hotel to Sergio de la Peña.
De la Peña had the intention to use this property as a Beach Club for the owners of the villas and homes on La Isla. This was never completed because Luis Medina sold to de la Peña the building without furniture and without any timeshare clients. This really hurt Sergio de la Peña.

Mr. Barrenechea and Mr. Pluma sold part of their villas to Sergio de la Peña and Cristerna became a partner to continue selling time share on the North side of La Isla. Sergio de la Peña built the lighthouse where he had the administration offices, restaurant and sales office.

Until today, I don’t know how Cristerna persuaded Sergio de la Peña in 2006 to build homes and sell them as fractional ownership and full time ownership on the north part of La Isla. This is when the real estate frauds really began, in addition to the fraud already being committed in the villas owned by Sergio de la Peña.

Before this, the crook Cristerna had already committed fraud against Lic. Guerrero owner of Cerritos Resort and against Luís Medina ex-owner of Marina del Rey and Playa Maria and some other people. Furthermore, he did not pay commissions to his OPC workers, nor the sales people who were selling timeshare, fractional and full time ownership.

It is very important to mention that the Marina Mazatlán development company, Desarrollo Marina Mazatlán including its Director General Lic. Echavarria, have nothing to do with Sergio de la Peña and neither with the crook Cristerna.

The crook Cristerna in the begining of 2008 secretly bought from Sergio de la Peña all of his properties on La Isla including Hotel Playa Maria for the amount of 51 millions pesos (approximately $5 million USD).

At first nobody knew how Cristerna get this large amount of money. However, in those days Cristerna was working as the head salesman of another big fraud, which is now operating in Mazatlan, which is the condominiums building in the Golden Zone called Crown Bay, funded by these men named Pardo, well known as laundry money guys. They own several jewelry stores in the Golden Zone and sell alot of the jewelry to drug dealers all around the country. For this reason, it is very possible that this purchase was done with the dirty money of the Pardos, who also are the owners of the Crown Bay Project and are partial owners of the Torrenza Project. Therefore, Manuel Cristerna let these guys use his name to launder the money from the Pardos.

These two projects mentioned above, are a real money laundering center that belong to the Pardos, the Coronels and Sr. Castañeda. These projects have become a huge fraud and a big headache to those who buy any condominium in any of these projects.

None of these crooks mentioned here are Mazatlecos. They only came to Mazatlán to commit fraud and to launder the money from the drug dealers.

At the present time, is well known that these people bought part of La Isla and Hotel Playa Maria using Manuel Cristerna’s name as a convenience. When Cristerna got out of jail, he tried to manage Playa Maria and selling timeshares there, but the Pardo’s threw him out of the Hotel using the police to do so, and now they have named the old Playa Maria hotel, Torrenza Boutique Hotel.

At the present time, it is well known that Cristerna is trying again to sell the villas, condominiums and homes at La Isla.

I hope you will expose this information in the blog site also in English to try to stop these real estate and timeshare frauds in Mazatlán. It is also very important to let the blogger know and to your friends too, that they have to be very careful and do not get involved with anything regarding the Torrenza Project. They also manage the Royal Villas and what used to be Playa Maria regarding the timeshare sales with the direction of another crook named Steven Noland. This Project has no permits, besides being the largest money laundering of the drug dealers in Mazatlán because the construction company named COVI is managed by two crooks named Miguel Coronel (father & son) relatives of the big drug dealer named Nacho Coronel, whom provides the money for the construction of the projects that this company builds in Mazatlán. The construction has been stopped for not having money because this drug dealer Nacho Coronel has escaped from the persecution that the Federal Government has launched against him.

Best regards,
Mazatleco