The Fiscalía General de la República (FGR) conducted investigative proceedings on Friday, November 13, 2026, at two sites of the Instituto Nacional Electoral (INE): its headquarters in Tlalpan and Torre Zafiro in Jardines del Pedregal, as part of the investigation file into alleged acts of corruption during the tenure of Guadalupe Taddei.
The INE's interim president, Blanca Cruz García, confirmed to media that agents from the Fiscalía Especializada en Materia de Combate a la Corrupción, with support from the Policía Federal Ministerial, came to request information at the Dirección de Recursos Materiales y Servicios in Torre Zafiro and at the Secretaría Ejecutiva. According to the official, there was no proceeding at the former president's office. The case was assigned to María de Luz Mijangos Borja, the special prosecutor for combating corruption, according to El Universal. The review comes one week after the institute's Consejo General filed a complaint over alleged irregularities.
Cruz García described the procedure as requests for information, not a general review of departments. "This is not something they notify us about; they request information from us and we simply provide access," she said in remarks reported by Expansión Política. The official added that the proceedings can last hours or days and that further requests are expected. On November 6, the INE's ten council members filed a complaint with the FGR over the alleged conflict of interest between Taddei and contractor Alfredo Hernández Casillas; the Órgano Interno de Control informed the Cámara de Diputados of six criminal complaints for illicit use of authority, use of a false document, influence peddling, illicit exercise of public service and bribery, Expansión Política reported. The inquiry is also reviewing the institute's contracts with companies owned by the Casillas brothers, according to El Universal.
The Fiscalía has not announced a deadline for concluding the proceedings or defined any charges. The institute is maintaining its schedule of activities and has said it will respond to requests from the competent authorities, while the departures of senior officials continue and now total 33, according to the same coverage.
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