Interpol canceled the red notice for Inés Gómez Mont and Víctor Manuel Álvarez Puga, a move that took effect on September 25 after five years under the alert. The decision clears the international notice against the couple, but it does not end the Mexican arrest warrant that was issued in 2021 and remains valid.
The timing is why the case is back in view now. On September 30, Claudia Sheinbaum said she had been told that the fichas had been removed that same morning, putting the cancellation into public view five days after it took effect. That followed a request the defense presented to Interpol on October 13, 2025, and a formal notification that reached the couple almost a year after their lawyers first raised the matter before the agency’s committee.
The defense has argued that the case should never have carried the weight it did. It says the matter had political motivation and that extraditing the couple to Mexico would expose them to a real risk of arbitrary detention because of mandatory pretrial detention. It also says the public exposure of the case since 2021 violated the right to a fair trial and the presumption of innocence.
Those arguments were part of a longer legal fight that has moved slowly through Mexican courts. The defense says the amparo filed in November 2021 has still not received a ruling on the merits, even in the first instance, after almost five years of litigation. The case was docketed on January 9, 2022, in a court in Ciudad de México, challenging the arrest warrant issued by a federal judge at the Centro de Justicia Penal Federal del Altiplano for peculado, lavado de dinero and delincuencia organizada.
The path did not move in a straight line. Hearings were postponed, and the case became trapped in a jurisdictional conflict among courts in Ciudad de México, Estado de México and Sinaloa. That conflict was only resolved in 2026, when the matter was assigned to a district court of the Segundo Circuito in Estado de México. Even with that step, the underlying criminal case did not disappear.
The friction is plain: the international notice is gone, but the domestic warrant is not. The FGR maintains that the couple led a structure that used shell companies to divert federal funds tied to prison-system contracts signed during the sexenio of Enrique Peña Nieto, while the judge who issued the warrant rejected the claim that they were the leaders of the criminal structure. For now, the cancellation changes their standing with Interpol, not their legal situation in México, and the next move belongs to the courts that still have the case on their desks.
