Overview
- Multiple Mexican outlets reported that Inés Gómez Mont was detained in Florida on Friday, October 30, 2026, but neither U.S. authorities nor Mexico’s Fiscalía General de la República have publicly confirmed the arrest.
- Mexican courts issued arrest warrants for Gómez Mont in October 2021 after she left the country and she has been considered a fugitive from those charges since then.
- The FGR alleges Gómez Mont and her husband used a network of companies to simulate operations and launder funds from public contracts, including two contracts with federal prison centers that total about 2,950 million pesos.
- Mexico’s government said in September 2026 that Interpol had canceled a red notice for Gómez Mont and her husband, yet Mexican arrest warrants remain active and enforceable domestically.
- If authorities formally confirm the detention, the next steps are a possible extradition request from Mexico and U.S. legal proceedings, while Gómez Mont has publicly denied belonging to organized crime and her husband was reportedly secured by the FGR weeks earlier.