Overview

• Investigations by the Fiscalía General de la República and SSPC now target Ingemar, Lambrucar, Belar Fuels and Industriales Fundentes on suspicion of falsifying import documents and misclassifying fuel as industrial additives.
• Authorities linked the probe to a March ship seizure in Tampico that led to 11 arrests and the July confiscation of 15.48 million liters in 129 ferrotanques across Coahuila.
• A U.S. FinCEN report identifies SLA Servicios Logísticos Ambientales and Grupo Jala Logística as transporters used by cartel-linked networks to smuggle stolen Pemex fuel.
• Fuel Pricing data shows roughly 30 percent of daily gasoline imports enter Mexico as “huachicol fiscal,” costing billions in IEPS and VAT revenues.
• Federal and U.S. agencies are coordinating efforts to trace maritime smuggling routes that disguise fuel shipments as industrial additives to evade customs scrutiny.