PAN lawmaker challenges fuel-smuggling response
Original reporting: Azteca Noticias
What happened
Homero Niño de Rivera alleged losses of 600 billion pesos and demanded Finance Ministry explanations. Azteca Noticias contextualized the figure with an October 2025 federal estimate, including 16 billion pesos linked to filed complaints.
Reporting and context
PAN federal lawmaker Homero Niño de Rivera alleged that fuel smuggling caused 600 billion pesos in losses during the previous presidential term and demanded explanations about the government's response, according to Azteca Noticias.
Speaking in the Chamber of Deputies, he said the Finance Ministry had reported information about the problem in 2021 but later stopped making it public. He called for an account of the figures and measures taken against the trade, known in Mexico as huachicol fiscal, while criticizing pressure on taxpayers.
Azteca Noticias reported that federal authorities had previously cited the same 600-billion-peso figure in October 2025. At that time, federal fiscal prosecutor Grisel Galeano García described it as estimated damage based on reported cases and cases under investigation. She said 16 billion pesos of that amount was linked to complaints that had been filed.
That earlier explanation gives context to the total invoked by the lawmaker: the 16 billion pesos was part of the broader estimate, rather than an additional loss. Niño de Rivera argued that the suspected damage to public revenue and the potential responsibility of those involved should make fuel smuggling a federal priority.
He also alleged that Mario Delgado took campaign trips on an aircraft linked to businessman Sergio Carmona and said testimony in prosecutors' investigation files mentioned Andy López Beltrán, a son of former president Andrés Manuel López Obrador. Azteca attributed those allegations to the PAN lawmaker.
Original report: Azteca Noticias.