The businessman Víctor Manuel Álvarez Puga, husband of the TV presenter Inés Gómez Mont and a fugitive from Mexican justice, He is detained in a processing center in Florida, United States.
According to a court document dated October 15, Álvarez Puga was detained on September 24 by agents of the Immigration and Customs Enforcement Service (ICE) and transferred to the North Krome processing center, in Miami, due to their irregular situation in the neighboring country.
The document indicates that Álvarez Puga entered the United States on January 14, 2021 and He had permission to stay in the country until July 13 of the same year.
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He left the country on July 9 heading to the Bahamas, but returned, by boat, a day later. On July 11, he requested asylum in the United States, alleging that in Mexico he suffered persecution “for his conservative political beliefs” and that he was “afraid to return to Mexico due to his political opinions and his membership in a certain social group.”
The application was submitted to the Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS), and it is still pending. The Mexican was detained for deportation purposes, as he was not legally in the United States.
In the court document, the Mexican questions his detention and claims his right to bail. District Judge Cecilia M. Altonaga determined that, in effect, The detainee has the right to an individual bail hearing and demands that he be assigned a date for it or, otherwise, be released.
In Mexico, Álvarez Puga and his wife, a television presenter whose whereabouts are unknown, have an arrest warrant issued by the Attorney General’s Office in 2021 for money laundering.organized crime, embezzlement and tax fraud.
How did Manuel Álvarez Puga’s companies operate?
Investigations indicate that Álvarez Puga and his brother Alejandro created and managed a complex network of companies through his office Álvarez Puga & Asociados, with reach in more than 40 cities in the country.
This firm, with a public profile of tax and legal advice, operated a parallel structure dedicated to the constitution of front companies, or “invoicing companies”, whose function was to simulate commercial operations with official organizations. The main client of the shell companies was the Decentralized Administrative Body for Prevention and Social Readaptation of the Ministry of the Interior.
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Invoicing companies signed contracts that justified multimillion-dollar movements under the protection of public bidding. According to the FGR, the office was in charge of formalizing paper companies without real activities, personnel or infrastructure of its own.
Through these simulated entities, digital tax receipts were issued in exchange for public resources and, On multiple occasions, the money was dispersed to accounts linked to the main parties involved.
The official investigation maintains that the network headed by Álvarez Puga simulated transactions with the purpose of covering up the systematic diversion of federal funds.
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