Overview
- Judge Guillermina Matías Garduño ordered the linkage to process after a lengthy hearing held at the Altiplano federal prison.
- The court dismissed the alleged operations with illicit resources due to insufficient evidence but applied mandatory preventive detention under the organized-crime charge.
- Both the prosecution and the defense were granted two months of complementary investigation before the case advances.
- Vera was arrested on November 7 in Cuautla on a seven‑year‑old warrant tied to a 2014 Sedesol contract worth about 77.8 million pesos for Cruzada contra el Hambre surveys.
- The defense plans to appeal the ruling and seek an amparo against detention, citing ASF findings and records showing he did not sign the questioned agreements.