Mexico minister defends luxury home purchase
12 December 2014 Last updated at 15:43 ET
Mexico minister defends luxury home purchase
Mexican Finance Minister Luis Videgaray has gone on national TV and radio to defend how he bought his luxury home.
His appearance follows Wall Street Journal reports that he bought the home from a construction firm whose parent company had won large public contracts.
Mr Videgaray is not accused of anything illegal and he says he will neither sell his home nor step down.
The affair comes in the wake of a similar case involving President Enrique Pena Nieto.
Last month, Mr Pena Nieto's wife was forced to sell a $7m (£4.4m) house she had bought from the same company and also made a televised address explaining the source of her income.
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