Overview
- In a live interview, the former tourism official said he was in Washington, showed his passport as proof of free movement, and pledged to fly to another country within days.
- Producers from Grupo Fórmula matched distinctive details in his video background, including a red piano, to the restaurant at the Hotel Myriad in Lisbon.
- Mexico City’s prosecutor’s office posted that Levy was detained in Portugal on Oct. 28 for extradition proceedings and is under identity-control and stay requirements, a version echoed by President Claudia Sheinbaum, according to El Heraldo de México.
- Levy rejected the claims, calling a circulating Interpol document fake and asserting that the U.S. State Department said a related video was edited.
- The prosecutor’s office says he faces two active arrest warrants in Mexico for environmental and threats-related cases; earlier coverage noted the lack of official confirmation, with the situation still developing.