Overview
- Federal agents detained Duarte in Chihuahua around 2 p.m. on Dec. 8 under a May 16, 2024 warrant for alleged operations with illicit proceeds.
- He was transferred late Monday to the Altiplano federal prison, arriving at 11:21 p.m., and is expected to be presented to a federal judge on Dec. 9.
- Prosecutors allege he used the Mexican financial system to conceal state funds diverted during his governorship in a scheme characterized as money laundering.
- Mexico requested U.S. consent on Oct. 4, 2024 to prosecute offenses beyond those in his extradition, and received authorization on Dec. 4, 2025.
- Duarte was first arrested in Miami in 2020 and extradited in 2022 to face state charges of embezzlement and criminal association, which remain pending as he is presumed innocent.