Overview
- Armando Castilla Galindo was released Saturday after a Nuevo León control judge, Luis Eduardo Hernández Meza, declined to bind him to trial on a fraud charge.
- The judge found the Fiscalía did not substantiate probable responsibility, with the defense showing Castilla was in Medellín, Colombia, on the August 27, 2025 date cited in the alleged deal.
- The complaint’s validity was questioned because the supposed victim never personally appeared and case materials were supplied by a purported legal adviser rather than gathered by prosecutors.
- Castilla had been detained Friday at Monterrey’s airport by Nuevo León authorities with National Guard support over an accusation he tried to sell a property not in his name for 3 million pesos, according to the Fiscalía.
- Vanguardia and press groups condemned the detention as arbitrary, citing lack of access to the case file and calling it a misuse of criminal law in what they describe as a long pattern of judicial harassment; Coahuila’s Fiscalía said the case did not originate in that state.