Overview

• Mexico’s attorney general said the amparo filed by Hernán Bermúdez Requena will not change his legal standing.
• Bermúdez, the former Tabasco security chief identified as leading La Barredora, refused to give a statement to local authorities after his detention.
• Testimony from two associates—one already prosecuted federally and another cooperating under a criterio de oportunidad—helped secure a federal arrest warrant.
• Authorities located Bermúdez in Paraguay through intelligence and an Interpol red notice, and his expulsion enabled his return to Mexico to face a local arrest order.
• The FGR expects the upcoming audiencia intermedia to force a defense response to the imputations, which prosecutors say will strengthen the federal case.