Overview
- Federal authorities carried out coordinated raids in late May that led to eight arrests, including two alleged leaders, and the opening of federal proceedings in Michoacán against the suspects for issuing false tax receipts.
- The Treasury’s early estimate places the network’s false invoicing at more than 12,000 million pesos, a fiscal hole large enough to equal about half of Tlaxcala’s 2026 budget.
- Investigators say the scheme relied on roughly 15 front companies and at least one association registered across multiple states to issue bogus comprobantes fiscales that let real firms claim deductions and move money tax-free.
- Searches yielded 21 properties, 14 vehicles and substantial cash in several currencies, and the eight detainees were placed in preventive custody while judges set continuation hearings for the coming week.
- The FGR credited the Unidad de Inteligencia Financiera, the SAT and other agencies for the probe and warned that charges could be upgraded to include illicit resources or organized crime as evidence is consolidated.