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The President of Mexico, Claudia Sheinbaum, reported this Wednesday that Interpol has removed the red notices against the former Mexican television presenter Inés Gómez Mont and her husband, businessman Víctor Manuel Álvarez Puga, who are wanted by the justice system, and announced that she will request their reactivation.
“Today I was told that Interpol removed the red notice. They are just going to ask about the reasons today. We, the government, are going to request that the red notice be recovered,” the president noted during her morning press conference.
Sheinbaum defended the need to maintain international alerts to facilitate their location and eventual detention in another country.
“If they go to another country, well, it has to be done with the arrest warrant because they are criminals,” she affirmed.
The president criticized the removal of the red notice for these two individuals, whom she described as "well-known 'factureros' (those who sell fake invoices to evade taxes)" and who have active arrest warrants in Mexico.
The Mexican leader was referring to Álvarez Puga and Gómez Mont, sought by the Mexican justice system for an alleged scheme of shell companies used to facilitate tax evasion, the diversion of public funds, and money laundering.
Álvarez Puga, who was detained in the United States, and Gómez Mont, a former television presenter in Mexico, face arrest warrants for alleged crimes of embezzlement, organized crime, and operations involving illicit resources in an amount allegedly totaling some 3 billion pesos (more than 160 million dollars).
An Interpol red notice is a request to law enforcement agencies of member countries to locate and provisionally arrest a wanted person, pending extradition or other legal action, although it does not constitute an international arrest warrant in itself.
The couple had been on Interpol's list of red notices since 2021, at the request of Mexican authorities, and had since been considered fugitives from their country's justice system, until the detention of Álvarez Puga in the United States.
Last July, the Attorney General's Office (FGR) reported that it was maintaining the procedures to secure the businessman's extradition from the United States and the arrest of Gómez Mont.
In the case of Álvarez Puga, the Prosecutor's Office noted at the time that he was subject to an immigration proceeding in the United States, where he was detained in September 2025.
His next hearing is scheduled for November 2026, while Mexican authorities continue with the formal extradition request.
Regarding Gómez Mont, the FGR indicated that it was maintaining a request for provisional arrest for extradition purposes and that it continued to compile the formal petition required by U.S. authorities.
So far, Interpol has not publicly informed of the reasons why the red notices against the couple were removed.
[Publicidad]