The Auditoría Superior de la Federación (ASF) documented overpayments, extraordinary payments without justification and supervision failures in federal contracts awarded to companies of Corporativo Kosmos, the group owned by Jack Landsmanas, according to a review of audits published by El Universal on November 13, 2026. The findings cover the 2018 and 2019 public accounts.
Since December 2018, the corporate group's firms accumulated at least 25,787,791,404 pesos in contracts with federal agencies and state governments, according to El Universal's tally of the Plataforma Nacional de Transparencia and Compras MX. The contracts cover food services, institutional cafeterias, the purchase of medicines and pharmaceutical products, and supplies that reach hospitals and detention centers. The case file shows how the Cuenta Pública and procurement records make it possible to trace every contracted peso and compare prices across agencies. On November 11, President Claudia Sheinbaum said she had asked Secretary Raquel Buenrostro to review the case: "I saw the story and I asked Secretary Buenrostro to carry out the investigation and respond to the story," according to the Presidency's stenographic record.
In the 2018 public account, the ASF found arithmetic errors in a contract between the national DIF and Productos Serel for cafeteria, laboratory, fumigation and transportation services, which resulted in an overpayment of 754,482.74 pesos and in the failure to apply penalty clauses. The audit also reported that 82 supervision forms from three sites were not gathered and that the vehicles used to transport perishables exceeded the permitted age of eight years. In the 2019 public account, the review identified lodging and food contracts between the then Policía Federal and Kol Tov, with an estimated loss to the public treasury of more than 11 million pesos, and a direct award to Productos Serel without documented justification. The ASF recommended investigating and sanctioning the public officials who did not calculate the penalties or monitor the delivery of the services.
The next step is the report that the Secretaría Anticorrupción y Buen Gobierno presents on the procurement procedures, as the Presidency set out at the November 11 press conference. The ASF's recommendations remain in the hands of internal control units, which decide whether the case file moves to administrative sanctions or to formal complaints.
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