Overview
- The Auditoría Superior de la Federación has launched an ex oficio investigation into procurement tied to the Instituto Nacional Electoral and all state electoral bodies to trace suspected irregularities.
- Auditors say two corporate groups logged about 8,870 million pesos in operations with public entities from 2014–2026, with roughly 3,790 million pesos going to local electoral bodies.
- INE’s internal control office reported that five interlinked companies received about 2,461 million pesos in contracts from 2014–2025 and named Cajas Graf, Corporativo Zeg, Formas Finas y Materiales, Comercializadora JVLY and Seriplas de México.
- Investigators found patterns consistent with simulated competition and subcontracting between related firms, unusual payroll records for high-billing companies, and possible ties to irregular invoicing schemes known as 'factureras'.
- Eighteen case files are open inside the INE’s control office—five in administrative responsibility proceedings and 13 under investigation—and officials say forensic work is ongoing with no public criminal indictments so far.