Overview

• In a remote hearing from El Altiplano, a Tabasco control judge imposed preventive imprisonment on state charges of association delictuosa, extortion and express kidnapping.
• Bermúdez reserved his right to declare and his defense sought duplication of the constitutional term, moving the ruling on his legal status to Tuesday.
• Tabasco’s prosecutor said the state counts could carry up to 158 years in prison if convicted, as a separate federal hearing on organized crime and aggravated kidnapping remains pending.
• President Claudia Sheinbaum said the FGR must corroborate a cooperating witness’s allegations tied to the 2018 Tabasco election and stated there is no charge against Senator Adán Augusto López Hernández.
• Paraguay’s SENAD reported Bermúdez was detained on September 12 and delivered to Mexican authorities via Colombia, after which he was taken under heavy security to the El Altiplano prison.