Overview

• Federal prosecutors said a control judge found sufficient indications to open a criminal process for operations with illicit resources exceeding 156 million pesos.
• Roberto Sandoval remains under justified preventive detention at the El Rincón federal prison in Tepic.
• The linkage was secured for a second time after a court ordered the initial hearing to be repeated and properly reasoned.
• Days earlier, state authorities obtained a conviction for falsification of documents tied to alleged land dispossession at the ranch “El Sueño” in San Blas.
• The U.S. Treasury sanctioned Sandoval in 2019, freezing his accounts and alleging corruption and ties to the CJNG.