Mexico government says network of companies benefiting from INE did not originate with Taddei, Digi Mart USA News: Mexico’s Anticorruption and Good Government Secretariat has made public an investigation into a corporate network that allegedly captured public contracts for the manufacture of electoral materials, accumulating more than 2.7 billion pesos between 2015 and 2025. The matter drew attention after videos circulated involving Guadalupe Taddei, former president of the National Electoral Institute (INE).
According to the official report, based on records from Compranet and the National Transparency Platform, the scheme operated through companies linked to brothers José Alfredo and Raymundo Hernández Casillas, whose administration was later delegated to direct relatives. Spending concentration occurred mainly in the Local Electoral Public Bodies (OPLEs).
The report places the origin of the suppliers in the 1980s within federal security and interior government agencies, with the sector moving into electoral supply in the late 1990s. Companies identified include Formas Finas y Materiales, Cajas Graf, Seriplast de México, Corporativo SEC and Formas Finas Fernando Fernández.
Technical inquiries by the Tax Administration Service (SAT) and the Financial Intelligence Unit (UIF) describe three structural irregularities. Because these agreements were signed with the National Electoral Institute and various OPLEs, institutions with technical and management autonomy, administrative sanctions will depend on resolutions from the Legislative Branch, the Superior Audit of the Federation (ASF) and the respective internal control bodies.
Meanwhile, tax authorities keep investigation files open over alleged simulated invoicing and operations involving funds of illicit origin.
