Overview
- A federal judge ordered preventive detention for Ernesto Ruffo Appel on charges of organized crime and hydrocarbon contraband, and Ruffo was transferred to the maximum‑security Altiplano prison after the ruling.
- The Fiscalía General de la República says its yearlong investigation ties Ruffo and co‑defendants to a scheme that entered fuel with false or incomplete customs declarations to underreport volumes and evade taxes, which the FGR estimates cost about 4,000 million pesos.
- Authorities executed the detentions through a coordinated operation with the federal security cabinet and the Fiscalía Especializada en materia de Delincuencia Organizada, and the case includes several people already arrested and more than twenty suspects still sought.
- Separately, federal forces arrested José Guadalupe Ahumada Villegas, alias 'M4', and nine others identified as CJNG operatives in Nayarit and Tlaxcala, seizing weapons, vehicles and phones during the raids.
- Law‑enforcement actions in the region also included Peru’s capture of two Venezuelans accused of shooting at a CIVA interprovincial bus and Spain’s Guardia Civil breaking up a five‑person high‑end watch robbery ring, while a police shooting that killed an eight‑year‑old in Huacho is under forensic and prosecutorial review.