Mexico seeks deportation of Inés Gómez Mont after Florida arrest, Digi Mart USA News (Florida, United States): Mexico’s Attorney General’s Office (FGR) is seeking the deportation of Inés Gómez Mont, a former television host who was detained on October 30 in Florida. She faces three arrest warrants for alleged financial crimes and organized crime.
Attorney General Ernestina Godoy said Monday that Mexican authorities had delivered the valid judicial warrants to the United States and exchanged information about the open investigations against the presenter. The stated goal is to secure her transfer to Mexico so the arrest warrants can be executed.
A decision on any possible deportation rests exclusively with U.S. authorities.
The FGR said Gómez Mont remains detained for matters related to her immigration status in the United States. The institution noted that it had requested her provisional detention for extradition purposes since September 2025.
According to the authorities, she left Mexico while facing investigations into alleged illegal financial operations.
One of the arrest warrants concerns her alleged participation in organized crime and operations involving funds of illicit origin, a crime known as money laundering. The other two relate to accusations of tax fraud.
Investigators allege that Gómez Mont received money of illicit origin into her personal bank accounts.
According to prosecutors, the funds came from a scheme diverting public money through shell companies and financial operations designed to conceal the origin of the funds. Authorities say these operations allowed state resources to be transferred to private accounts.
The investigation is linked to public contracts worth approximately 2,450 million Mexican pesos, equivalent to 130.3 million U.S. dollars.
The FGR said the funds came from the Decentralized Administrative Body for Prevention and Social Readaptation, which manages federal prisons. Authorities are investigating an alleged triangulation scheme in which companies simulated commercial operations, a method that prosecutors say helped divert public money and obscure the final recipients.
Godoy said the funds were intended to guarantee security and the functioning of the Mexican prison system. “These conduct are serious,” she said.
She also stated that the use of shell companies conceals the destination of public money. “Every peso diverted or not contributed is a peso that stops reaching the programs and actions that benefit millions of Mexicans,” she said.
In addition to the money laundering investigation, Gómez Mont faces allegations related to her tax returns. Prosecutors contend she declared income lower than what she actually earned in 2014 and 2016, which allegedly led to the omission of payment of more than 13 million Mexican pesos, equivalent to about 691,489 U.S.
dollars. Authorities consider these alleged irregularities to constitute tax fraud.
The two arrest warrants related to taxes are among the documents delivered to U.S. authorities.
While Mexico seeks her deportation, Gómez Mont’s defense is attempting to secure her release from the immigration detention center where she is held. On Saturday, her lawyers filed a habeas corpus petition with U.S.
courts challenging the legality of her detention at the Broward Transitional Center in Florida. The petition was filed by her attorney, John Patrick Pratt, but the case file remains under judicial seal, so the arguments used by the defense are not yet known.
The FGR maintains its intention to execute the arrest warrants if Gómez Mont is deported. However, whether she remains in the United States or is transferred to Mexico depends on U.S.
immigration procedures. Mexican authorities had also requested her provisional detention for extradition purposes, a route distinct from deportation.
For now, the FGR awaits a resolution that would allow the open judicial proceedings to advance.
The institution noted that Inés Gómez Mont retains the presumption of innocence and that Mexican courts will determine any criminal liability. No date has been confirmed for a possible transfer, and the case continues under coordination between authorities of both countries.
