Overview
- The ruling by Judge Guillermina Matías Garduño followed a marathon hearing in which she found insufficient evidence for alleged laundering tied to 77.8 million pesos.
- Alejandro Vera Jiménez will remain in pretrial detention at the Altiplano maximum-security prison during the investigation period.
- Vera was arrested on November 7 in Cuautla on a years-old warrant linked to the broader scheme known as the Estafa Maestra.
- The defense says Vera did not sign the questioned agreements and cites Auditoría Superior de la Federación resolutions finding no patrimonial damage, and it will appeal the linkage and seek an amparo against detention.
- The case centers on a 2014 Sedesol contract for millions of program-evaluation surveys that auditors and investigators say fit a pattern of university contracts used to divert federal funds.