Overview
- The Tribunal de Disciplina Judicial ordered a temporary suspension in a private session last Thursday, voting unanimously to keep the judge off the bench pending the outcome of an investigation and any disciplinary action.
- The measure was imposed at the request of the head of the Órgano de Investigación de Responsabilidades Administrativas following a complaint from the federal prison authority’s legal office.
- Investigators allege the judge expanded amparo protections in ways that improperly impeded the extradition of Romanian national Florian Tudor.
- Authorities also contend she named the specific detention center for the detainee, a function reserved to penitentiary officials under the National Law of Penal Execution.
- The suspended judge is assigned to the State of Mexico with residence in Toluca, and the underlying case involves Tudor, detained by the FGR in May 2021 and sought by Romania on organized crime, extortion and attempted aggravated homicide charges.