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Companies exposed to tax fraud
President Andrés Manuel López Obrador revealed 13 example cases of tax fraud involving accounting firms and companies from various sectors, accumulating a total of more than 120 billion pesos (mdp), which are paralyzed or delayed in the Judicial Branch.
The companies involved belong to the sectors of air transportation, soft drinks, scrap metal, cement, mining, accounting firms, legal and payroll management, steel, oil, food, gas station, a soccer team and department stores.
The president pointed out that, on average, there is a delay of 159 days between the date of submission of the case by the Attorney General’s Office (FGR) and the date of the initial hearing granted by the Judicial Branch.
According to the National Code of Criminal Procedure, the Judiciary is obliged to carry out the process within a maximum period of 15 days from the request for judicialization, the president explained in his morning press conference.
In some cases, he mentioned, the Judicial Branch has not yet granted an initial hearing date, which has led to some cases being paused for up to 2 years.
As an example, he presented the case of an air transport company that, according to data from the Tax Administration Service (SAT), owes the Public Treasury 33,495 million pesos. This case was detained for 195 days between October 3, 2022 and April 16, 2023.