Overview
- A federal court admitted Humberto Enrique López Arellano’s amparo but refused a provisional suspension to lift the freeze on his bank accounts.
- Judge Juan Mateo Brieba de Castro of the Sixth District Court in Criminal Matters set December 10 to decide whether the asset block will remain in place.
- Prosecutors allege López Arellano is tied to the group known as Los Primos, accused of fuel smuggling through customs misdeclarations to evade taxes.
- The inquiry expanded after authorities seized about 10 million liters of diesel from the vessel Challenge Procyon in Tampico in March 2025.
- UIF reports cited transactions inconsistent with a salary profile, including 2020–2024 income of 13.675 million pesos from SEMAR and ANAM, cash foreign-currency buys, a share sale of roughly 9.026 million pesos, and a BMW purchase in 2023; other officers named include Vice Admiral Manuel Roberto Farías Laguna (detained in September) and Rear Admiral Fernando Farías Laguna (at large).