Overview
- Police arrested developer José Lobatón at the Swiss Hospital on Wednesday night after a judge linked him to a fraud case and ordered preventive detention at the Penal de Apodaca.
- A private hearing that lasted about 13 hours produced orders of prisión preventiva for Lobatón and for lawyer Manuel Enrique Cano, who is accused of acting as the company's legal representative.
- A separate judge linked three people tied to Inmobiliaria Tamayo Capital to process and ordered their preventive detention while a three-month complementary investigation proceeds.
- Prosecutors presented contracts, deposit slips, photographs and other documents and say the cases together involve hundreds of complaints and alleged losses that regional reports place between roughly 500 million pesos and more than one billion pesos.
- Buyers who paid for 'preventas' report partial or full payments for units that were never finished or delivered, and authorities say the probes could lead to more arrests, reparations orders and prison terms if guilt is proven.