Inés Gómez Mont and Álvarez Puga family money laundering case, Digi Mart USA News: The legal pressure surrounding former television host Inés Gómez Mont, her husband Víctor Manuel Álvarez Puga and her brother-in-law Alejandro Mario Álvarez Puga is intensifying over alleged money laundering offenses. Mexico’s Attorney General’s Office (FGR) is demanding accountability for millions in alleged diverted funds, while U.S.
authorities maintain custody or surveillance of the couple.
According to the report, Gómez Mont’s situation took an unexpected turn on October 30, when U.S. immigration authorities detained her in Florida over irregularities in her immigration status.
The detention revived a legal process that had been left pending after her alleged departure from Mexican territory in September 2025.
Ernestina Godoy, head of the Mexican prosecutor’s office, publicly confirmed the legal status of the accused. The agency said it cooperated with partner agencies through information exchange and is awaiting a deportation decision so that three outstanding arrest warrants can be executed upon her arrival.
The charges include organized crime, transactions involving funds of illicit origin, and tax fraud. Mexican federal judges issued the warrants after detecting financial anomalies in her personal bank accounts, where she allegedly received illicit funds through a scheme of diverting public resources.
Investigators allege a fraud carried out through contracts worth about 2,450 million pesos. These funds, sourced from the Decentralized Administrative Body for Prevention and Social Readaptation, were supposed to guarantee security at the country’s federal prisons.
Instead, the money allegedly ended up in shell company accounts.
The accused also reported income lower than what she earned in fiscal years 2014 and 2016, allegedly omitting more than 13 million pesos in taxes, conduct classified as serious.
The case directly implicates her closest family circle. Her brother-in-law was arrested on Thursday, July 9, 2026, by the Federal Ministerial Police after being intercepted on Boulevard Kukulcán in Cancún’s hotel zone, Quintana Roo.
Federal agents immediately transferred the suspect to be placed before a judge at the Reclusorio Sur in Mexico City. Authorities link him to the fraudulent “invoicing” companies that received millions of pesos in government budget funds.
The former television host’s husband faces his own proceedings in the United States. U.S.
Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) arrested him in September 2025 in Florida over an irregular immigration status, adding a new chapter to a long history of criminal prosecution.
He is currently free on bail, wears a geolocation device and is subject to strict movement restrictions. His next immigration hearing is scheduled for November 2026, a date that will determine whether he remains in the neighboring country or faces possible removal.
In May 2026, the U.S. government denied the Mexican authorities’ extradition request for the businessman.
U.S. judges concluded that the charges of organized crime, embezzlement and money laundering were not violent in nature, halting his direct transfer.
The couple’s future now depends on immigration decisions in the United States. If deportations proceed, Mexican prosecutors say domestic courts will determine their responsibility under the law, guaranteeing due process and the presumption of innocence.
Note: The U.S. immigration process is an internal matter that the United States must resolve on its own, and no other country may intervene.
This article was drafted with the assistance of artificial intelligence and reviewed by an editor.
