Overview
- Armando Castilla Galindo, director of Grupo Vanguardia, was taken into custody on January 9 in Nuevo León and remains in preventive detention, according to authorities.
- The state prosecutor’s office alleges he committed fraud by selling a property not registered in his name for about 3 million pesos, stating the arrest occurred on the Miguel Alemán highway in Apodaca.
- Grupo Vanguardia reports he was seized around 10 a.m. at Monterrey’s airport with National Guard support, disputes the case as a civil-commercial matter, and says his lawyers have been denied access to the case file.
- The newspaper ties the prosecution to years of legal pressure linked to prior mercantile disputes in Coahuila, including a Saltillo property and a billboard lease it says was miscast as criminal fraud.
- The Inter American Press Association and Mexico’s Alianza de Medios condemned the detention as arbitrary and urged immediate release, citing wider concerns over judicial harassment of the press.