INE complaint to FGR over Guadalupe Taddei administration, Digi Mart USA News (Mexico): The National Electoral Institute (INE) filed a complaint on Thursday evening with the Attorney General’s Office (FGR), asking it to investigate the crimes of influence peddling, embezzlement, illicit enrichment, illicit use and abusive exercise of functions in the administration of Guadalupe Taddei as president of the electoral body.
Interim INE president Blanca Cruz said the complaint does not name specific individuals, and that the FGR would be responsible for assigning liability to officials involved in what it described as a web of complicity between officials and contractors. In a statement, the institute said the decision reflects its institutional obligation to safeguard legality, transparency and the proper administration of public resources, “without distinction of persons, positions, responsibilities or periods of management.”
The institute said it maintains a policy of zero tolerance toward any conduct that could compromise the integrity of resources used to fulfill its constitutional functions. The complaint specifically urges investigation of the five offenses in connection with a contract signed on December 10, 2025, between the INE and a business alliance made up of Cosmocolor, Icard Solutions and Talleres Gráficos de México.
The contract involves about 1,173 million pesos for the production of voter ID cards.
Latinus published a video showing contractor José Alfredo Hernández Casillas at a dinner last December, where he offered a toast to thank Guadalupe Taddei for signing the voter ID contract. The video also features Araceli Hernández Gómez, former head of the INE’s Gender Equality Technical Unit; Mario Burciaga, former director of material resources at the institute; Cosmocolor vice president Fernando Marón; and Ramón Mondragón, linked to Grupo Anémona and HuBO.
In the documentation delivered Thursday evening to the FGR’s filing office, the INE asked prosecutors to examine the source of the videos circulated in the media, particularly one in which Taddei and Hernández are heard discussing profit-sharing from the voter ID contract. The institute asked that prosecutors obtain the full original recording, establish its date, location and circumstances, conduct forensic analysis to verify its authenticity, identify everyone appearing in it, and compare the statements with related contracts, payments and financial transactions.
The complaint also cites Article 224 of the Federal Penal Code, which penalizes a public servant who cannot prove the legitimate growth of their assets or the lawful origin of property in their name or over which they act as owner. The filing follows six complaints the INE’s Internal Control Body presented to the FGR the same day against current and former INE officials and legal entities for the probable involvement in various crimes.
