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Mexico Arrests Ex–García Luna Aide on Organized Crime, Money-Laundering Charges

Prosecutors say she served as Nunvav’s legal representative to move illicit funds linked to diverted federal prison contracts.

Overview

  • The FGR said AIC agents executed an arrest warrant in Benito Juárez, Mexico City, detaining María Vanesa Pedraza Madrid.
  • She was taken for medical certification and placed before a control judge at CERESO No. 16 in Coatlán del Río, Morelos, pending an initial hearing.
  • FEMDO alleges she used Panama-based Nunvav, Inc. to channel resources suspected to come from organized crime and to divert public money from the OADPRS and the Treasury.
  • Financial intelligence cited in press reports links Nunvav to roughly 2.678 billion pesos in diverted prison-security contracts.
  • The case advances Mexico’s broader probe connected to García Luna, convicted in the U.S. in 2024 and now held at ADX Florence.