US EditionHuachicol Fiscal in Mexico: Two Marines Killed and Nearly 50 Detainees Among Seniors, Entrepreneurs and Public Officials · Global Voices
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The dismantling of a fuel smuggling network in Mexican customs, made up of sailors, civil servants and businessmen, active since at least 2024, has marked the public agenda and questioned the role of the Secretariat of the Navy in civilian functions. Commanded by the brothers Manuel Roberto and Fernando Farías Laguna, high-ranking military and political relatives of José Rafael Ojeda Durán, secretary of Marina during the six-year term of Andrés …
Since the confiscation of more than 10 million litres of stolen fuel in Tamaulipas, the Government of Mexico revealed a national criminal network in the energy sector
In all the country’s customs, “at least 555 companies that could be related to allegedly unlawful conduct” operate, according to the investigation opened by the Attorney General’s Office (FGR) following the securing in March of 10 million litres of diesel transporting the ship Challenge Procyon, which was intended to introduce irregularly into national territory through the port of Altamira, Tamaulipas.
On March 31, Secretary Omar García Harfuch confirmed the assurance of 10 million liters of dieselCredits: Special By: Wilfrido Hernández Cardozo Although the federal government claimed to have drastically reduced fuel theft since 2019, a new investigation reveals that the huachicol moved to a more sophisticated form: the legalized smuggling through apocryphal documentation, complicity of authorities and the use of key maritime ports. The Attorne…
MEXICO CITY.- Federal investigations have identified that fuel smuggling networks maintained control in at least eight strategic ports of the country to allow the illegal entry of hydrocarbons, reveal judicial files. Ports and companies involved The ports listed are Altamira, Tamaulipas; Veracruz, Veracruz; Ensenada, Baja California; Lázaro Cárdenas, Michoacán; Guaymas, Sonora; La Paz, [...] The entrance Tax huachicol Network operated in at leas…
A network operating in the shadows At the docks of Tampico and Guaymas, nighttime activity seemed routine. Convoys of tanker trucks formed up to load supposed lubricant additives recently unloaded from international vessels. However, behind this apparent normality lay a corruption network that allowed the entry of millions of liters of contraband fuel, a scheme currently being investigated by the Attorney General's Office (FGR). The role of the …
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