Overview
- Official SESNSP data show dispossession complaints have risen sharply and place Veracruz third nationally in investigations opened from 2015 to 2025.
- Victims in Veracruz accuse a network led by Roly Domínguez Romero of using fake notarial acts, sham civil suits and registry collusion to seize homes, and they say arrest orders and investigations remain stalled.
- Mexico City has activated a prioritized police protocol for despojo cases and used it to stop a violent takeover, detaining eight people in Gustavo A. Madero and handing them to prosecutors for investigation.
- Investigators say the schemes rely on falsified testamentary records, complicit notaries and judges, and gaps such as non‑digitized title files and legal limits on forcible removal that slow restitution.
- The fastest victims are often elderly people and families with succession disputes, many cases go unreported, and the trend could increase pressure on prosecutors to execute arrest orders and on authorities to digitize records and speed civil remedies.