Overview
- Investigators detained Marcos Miguel Taboada Vargas on October 23 at 18:10 in Los Romeros on the Mexico–Tuxpan highway in Santiago Tulantepec, a capture confirmed by the Hidalgo prosecutor’s office and the National Detention Registry.
- He is accused of illicit use of authority tied to 109,645,325 pesos in extraordinary funds and of aggravated failure to fulfill a legal duty that produced a 16,355,405-peso liability from an unresolved labor case.
- Authorities say the funds were requested for sanitization, machinery rental and repair, temporary payroll, and cleaning and office supplies but were paid to companies with characteristics of shell firms.
- According to the investigation, the contracts involved 22 individuals and entities and the goods and services are presumed not to have reached the municipality.
- He has been entered into the Pachuca CERESO and will be presented to a local judge, becoming the latest former Nueva Alianza mayor processed in the broader Hidalgo probe that has already ensnared at least nine ex-municipal leaders.