Overview
- Sonora’s control judge on December 7 ordered Raúl Navarro Gallegos be tried for probable peculado, criminal association, and fraud, according to the state prosecutor’s office.
- Investigators say the case centers on professional services contracts with the firm Bleda between 2017 and 2020 valued at about 45 million pesos.
- The court set a six-month period for complementary investigation, and the decision to link to process is not a conviction.
- Navarro will face the proceedings out of custody due to an amparo that blocks his detention, and reports state he crossed into the United States on November 12, 2024.
- Navarro previously served as Sonora’s finance secretary in 1991–1997 and 2015–2021, and the case stems from an anti-corruption probe launched in 2021 that officials say involves sums on the order of hundreds of millions of pesos.