Inés Gómez Mont FGR arrest warrants deportation Mexico, Digi Mart USA News: Mexico’s Attorney General’s Office (FGR) will execute three arrest warrants against former television host Inés Gómez Mont if U.S. authorities determine to deport her to Mexico, according to Attorney General Ernestina Godoy Ramos.
In a video message released Monday, November 2, Godoy said the FGR had shared information with U.S. authorities over recent weeks and delivered the outstanding warrants, all issued by Mexican federal judges.
Godoy said Gómez Mont’s detention in the United States currently relates to her immigration status, whose resolution rests with U.S. authorities.
If deportation is ordered, the FGR will carry out the warrants immediately upon her arrival in Mexico. Gómez Mont was detained on October 30 in Florida after nearly five years outside Mexico, and is reported to be in the custody of U.S.
Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) over an irregular immigration status.
One warrant was requested by the Specialized Prosecutor’s Office for Organized Crime over alleged participation in organized crime and operations with funds of illicit origin. The other two were requested by the Specialized Prosecutor’s Office for Competency Control over the offense of equated tax fraud.
According to the FGR’s investigation, the former host allegedly received illicit funds in her personal bank accounts, obtained through a scheme of diverting and triangulating public resources from the Decentralized Administrative Body for Social Prevention and Rehabilitation, using front companies. Godoy said the scheme involved contracts worth about 2,450 million pesos with that agency, which is responsible for federal prisons.
The FGR also alleges that Gómez Mont declared income lower than what she actually earned in the 2014 and 2016 fiscal years, allegedly omitting payment of more than 13 million pesos in taxes. Godoy said shell companies can be used to simulate operations, divert public funds and conceal their destination, and that money laundering seeks to secure private gains of illicit origin at the expense of the public budget.
Godoy stressed that Gómez Mont is presumed innocent and that Mexican courts will determine her responsibility in accordance with the law and due process. She said the FGR had taken steps since Gómez Mont left Mexico, requesting provisional detention for extradition purposes in September 2025 and coordinating with the U.S.
Department of Justice on a formal request.
Godoy noted that an extradition request and a possible deportation are separate procedures. For now, the FGR has conditioned execution of the arrest warrants on U.S.
immigration authorities ordering Gómez Mont’s return to Mexico. Mexican authorities also link Gómez Mont and her husband, Víctor Manuel Álvarez Puga, to an alleged corruption network operating through front companies.
Mexico requested international cooperation to locate both in October 2021, but Álvarez Puga’s situation in the United States followed a different procedure. He was detained by ICE agents on September 24, 2025 in Miami, also over an irregular immigration status.
Mexico requested his extradition, but according to the information provided, the United States rejected the request in May 2026, considering the offense non-violent.
In July, the FGR reported that U.S. authorities granted Álvarez Puga bail and that he would continue his immigration proceedings wearing a geolocation device.
The two cases remain separate: Gómez Mont’s immigration status is pending resolution in the United States, while the arrest warrants in Mexico remain in force for execution should she return to the country.
The FGR stated its responsibility is to bring Gómez Mont before the courts, and that determination of the offenses attributed to her will rest with Mexican judicial authorities.
