The Baja California government denied this Monday that Governor Marina del Pilar Ávila Olmeda owns a house located in San Diego, California, which is currently for sale for an estimated $4.5 million. Images of it have gone viral on social media due to their visual similarity to photographs shared by the governor herself on her Instagram account.
In an official statement released by the Baja California government’s Social Communications Office, it was categorically stated that “the head of the state’s executive branch does not own any property abroad,” and asserted that there is no legal, financial, or property link between the governor and the aforementioned property.
Who owns the mansion?
The statement detailed that the aforementioned property “does not belong, nor has ever belonged” to Governor Marina del Pilar.
She also clarified that, although the president has visited the residence in question, she did so as a guest, given that the property is owned by Fernando Salgado Chávez, identified as a close friend of the family and whose privacy, she emphasized, “is respected.”
