Overview
- A control judge barred María de Lourdes Arteaga Reyna from leaving Reynosa or Mexico, ordered her to sign with UMECA every eight days, and set a 300,000‑peso guarantee.
- Arteaga faces accusations of illicit exercise of public service and illicit use of powers tied to an alleged different application of 139,328,239.47 pesos on August 5, 2021.
- The court scheduled her next hearing for October 14 at 5 p.m. local time.
- In a related case, former education secretary Mario Gómez Monroy received a 19-year prison sentence in August 2025 over an irregular agreement with MetLife México linked to diverted premium payments.
- Former social welfare chief Rómulo Garza Martínez was linked to process in July 2025 and ordered into preventive detention over a direct-award purchase of 2.6 million food packages valued at about 650 million pesos.