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Audit Office Uses Informants to Probe INE Contracting

The Auditoría Superior de la Federación is offering reduced administrative penalties to cooperating insiders so auditors can build evidence to trace contracts and public money.

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Aureliano Hernández Palacios, titular de la Auditoría Superior de la Federación para el periodo 2026-2034 durante la sesión ordinaria de la Cámara de Diputados.
Trabajadores del organismo se fueron a paro en reclamo por mejores condiciones laborales.
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Overview

  • The ASF disclosed Monday that it is, for the first time, using its Program of Reduction of Sanctions for Informants to gather testimony, documents, photos, videos, financial records and WhatsApp messages tied to electoral contracts.
  • Materials provided by informants have produced indicia that final beneficiaries of supplier firms intervened in selecting providers and writing technical requirements to favor specific companies.
  • The INE filed a formal complaint with the Fiscalía General de la República on November 6 asking prosecutors to investigate possible criminal conduct linked to the contracting irregularities.
  • The ASF has opened a system-wide review of IFE/INE and local electoral procurement for 2000–2025 and said it will continue identifying people involved and tracing where public funds went.
  • Under the Ley General de Responsabilidades Administrativas, cooperating informants can seek reductions of administrative sanctions if they provide full, verifiable evidence, a mechanism that could reshape enforcement and feed parallel criminal and financial probes.