Gustavo Castillo García
La Jornada Newspaper
Sunday, December 14, 2025, p. 5
Federal authorities arrested Jesús Gabriel Pérez Rodríguez, accused by the federal government of having participated in the corruption network that diverted more than 5 billion pesos that were destined for the maintenance and works of federal prisons during the administration of the former Secretary of Security, Genaro García Luna.
Pérez Rodríguez is part of the group of 60 people who have been accused of participating in the corruption network, and against whom an arrest warrant was issued, in which they are accused, within the total of diverted resources, of having carried out financial operations for 2,950 million pesos to hide the origin through false invoices and the movements of resources through “front” companies related to Víctor Manuel Álvarez Puga, spouse of the television host Inés Gómez Mont.
The National Registry of Detentions (RND) of the Ministry of Security and Citizen Protection states that Pérez Rodríguez’s arrest occurred last Thursday, without specifying where he was transferred or placed at the disposal of a federal judge.
However, since December 2021, the Attorney General’s Office (FGR) obtained an arrest warrant by resolution of a federal judge based at the Federal Center for Social Readaptation (Cefereso) number 1, Altiplano, in Almoloya de Juárez, state of Mexico.
The file issued by the RND indicates that the detainee has the following characteristics: “male, approximate height of 1.63 meters, light brown complexion, beard, graying hair; denim pants, wine shirt, brown jacket, gray boots, brown cap, no visible tattoos.”
Regarding this case, in December 2023 Gloria García Luna and Édgar Anúar Rodríguez García, sister and nephew of former secretary García Luna, were arrested and both face criminal proceedings for operations with resources of illicit origin and organized crime.
The records of the Federal Public Ministry indicate that members of García Luna’s family and former officials of the defunct Secretariat of Public Security carried out financial triangulations – in addition to Álvarez Puga – with the American businessmen Jonathan Alexis Weinberg Pinto and Mauricio Samuel Weinberg López, to whom works and services that were not completed or not delivered were awarded.
