Overview
- A federal judge at the Altiplano court in Almoloya de Juárez canceled the initial hearing after the FGR did not provide the case file to Fernando Farías’s defense.
- Neither the prosecutor’s office, the defense team, nor the accused appeared for the session, and no official new date was announced.
- Farías faces an active arrest order and is reported as a fugitive, while overlapping amparos have shifted his legal status: a Mexico City suspension was revoked, but a separate suspension from a Zacatecas court remains in force, according to Proceso.
- Judicial sources cited by AM reported the hearing was rescheduled for November 5 at 11:30 a.m., a date not yet uniformly confirmed across outlets.
- The probe centers on alleged fuel-tax evasion via irregular landings tied to 31 vessels in Altamira and Tampico; Farías’s brother, Vice Admiral Manuel Roberto Farías, is already in pretrial custody along with other defendants linked to the scheme.