Overview
- Eduardo Enrique Gómez García was arrested in Izúcar de Matamoros, Puebla, by Federal Ministerial Police after an intelligence-led operation with the federal security cabinet.
- Prosecutors accuse him of organized crime with the purpose of conducting transactions with illicit proceeds and of peculado tied to service contracts he allegedly signed as OADPRS commissioner from 2008 to 2013.
- Authorities estimate the alleged diversion from penitentiary maintenance, equipment and operations at roughly 5 billion pesos, with one filing citing 5,112 million.
- A federal judge imposed preventive detention during the initial hearing after the MPF’s imputations, while the defense invoked the constitutional term duplication to resolve his legal status.
- The FGR says he is among 61 people with arrest warrants in the network; other detainees, Jesús Alberto Caballero Tardaguila and María Vanesa Pedraza Madrid, have been linked to process and remain in custody at Ceferesos 1 and 16.