Overview
- The Fiscalía General de la República confirmed that Inés Gómez Mont was detained in Miami on Friday, October 30, 2026, ending more than five years in flight from Mexican arrest warrants.
- Mexican prosecutors say she faces active warrants for defraudación fiscal equiparada, delincuencia organizada, peculado and operations with illicit resources linked to service contracts for federal prisons and alleged movements near 2,950 million pesos.
- Judicial records cited by reporters attribute specific deposits of 14,843,816 pesos to Gómez Mont from two companies tied to the probe, a detail prosecutors have used to connect her to the financial flows under investigation.
- Interpol issued red notices for Gómez Mont and her husband in October 2021 but those notices were withdrawn in September 2026, a decision Mexico has contested while domestic arrest warrants remained in force.
- U.S. authorities had not detailed the arrest publicly at first and any extradition or U.S. court proceedings are pending, a process that could be lengthy and will determine whether she is returned to Mexico to face charges.