Interpol Warns of CJNG’s Financial Fraud Schemes
The organization pointed to the increasing availability of advanced technologies as part of the CJNG’s increasing pool of financial fraud victims
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FGR Reactivates Arrest Warrants Against García Luna and Accomplices
The Attorney General of the Republic announced the warrants correspond to García Luna and his conspirators’ alleged role in trafficking weapons into Mexico, as well as embezzlement related to contracts and construction of the nation’s prison system
Read moreAt Least Three Injured in Playa del Carmen Shooting
By MARK LORENZANA A shootout on Saturday, July 23, in the Mexican resort town of Playa del Carmen, Quintana Roo, has left at least three people injured, according to local reports. Surveillance cameras at a hotel captured the moment of the shooting, which caused tourists traversing Fifth Avenue — a popular street in Playa del Carmen filled with souvenir shops, restaurants
Read moreCésar Duarte Sentenced to One-Year Preventive Detention
By MARK LORENZANA As a precautionary measure, Mexican Control Judge Humberto Chávez on Sunday, June 5, ordered a one-year preventive detention (jail without bail) against César Horacio Duarte Jáquez, the former governor of Chihuahua and member of the centralist and once-all-powerful Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI), for alleged crimes of embezzlement and criminal association. Judge Chávez set the indictment for Wednesday,
Read moreBehind the Cruz Azul Cement Plant Brawl
By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS For many outsiders, the violent clash between opposing worker groups at the Cruz Azul cement plant in Tula, Hidalgo, on Wednesday, April 27, which left eight people dead and nearly a dozen others injured, came as a shock. But for those who follow Mexican trade union politics, it was just the culmination of a long-simmering internal dispute.
Read moreInterpol Arrest Warrant Issued for Interjet Owner
By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF At the request of the Mexican government, Interpol issued an arrest warrant for grounded airline Interjet cofounder and director Miguel Alemán Magnani for the alleged crime of tax evasion to the tune of 65 million pesos, authorities said Tuesday, Aug. 17. Aléman Magnani — grandson of former Mexican President Miguel Alemán Valdés (1946-1952) and
Read moreInterjet Owner Allegedly Fled Mexico in January
By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF Mexican businessman and founder of the budget Interjet airlines Miguel Alemán Magnani, for whom the Federal Attorney General’s Office (FGR) issued an arrest warrant on Thursday, July 8, for alleged tax evasion, apparently left the country in January and has not returned since. According to a statement from the National Migration Institute (INM), the
Read moreMexico City Attorney General Asks for Extradition of Roemer
By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF Mexico City’s Attorney General’s Office said Monday, June 14, that is has requested the extradition of businessman and former Mexican diplomat Andrés Roemer Slomianski, who has been accused of multiple sexual crimes. Roemer, who is believed to be currently residing in Israel, has allegedly sexually assaulted or raped more than 60 women in Mexico.
Read moreFormer Puebla Governor Arrested on Kidnapping Charges
By KELIN DILLON Mario Marín Torres, former governor of the central Mexican state of Puebla, was arrested in Acapulco, Guerrero, on Wednesday, Feb. 3, by the Attorney General’s Office (FGR) after two years on the run from authorities. An arrest warrant was put out in 2019 by Attorney General Alejandro Gertz Manero, alongside a red Interpol notice, for Marín and
Read moreMexico City AG Requests Extradition of Ex-Police Chief
By KYLIE MADRY The Mexico City Attorney General’s Office has asked the United States to extradite a longtime Mexican official accused of stealing millions of pesos while in office, a spokesman announced during a press conference Saturday, Oct. 31. The previous day, the Mexico City Attorney General’s Office, along with the Morelos Attorney General’s Office, searched the house of Raymundo
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