Overview
- Federal Ministerial Police detained Eduardo Enrique Gómez García on January 7 in Izúcar de Matamoros, Puebla, acting under FGR direction with coordination from the federal security cabinet.
- Gómez García, who led the OADPRS from December 2008 to August 2013, is accused of peculado and organized crime for allegedly signing illicit service contracts for federal prisons.
- Prosecutors say the contracting irregularities occurred while Genaro García Luna oversaw the federal prison system between 2006 and 2012.
- In related actions, Jesús Alberto Caballero Tardaguila and María Vanesa Pedraza Madrid were previously linked to process and placed in preventive detention, with Caballero held at Cefereso No. 1 under a two-month complementary investigation period and Pedraza at Cefereso No. 16.
- The FGR alleges Nunvav Inc., where Pedraza served as legal representative, used the financial system to move illicit funds and divert OADPRS and federal treasury resources for the benefit of García Luna and relatives.