Interpol canceled the red notice for Inés Gómez Mont and Víctor Manuel Álvarez Puga on September 25. Inés Gómez Mont is no longer on that international alert list, but the arrest order in México still stands. That split leaves the pair in a narrower legal position than they held for the previous five years.
September 25 changes the status
The cancellation took effect after five years with the ficha roja active. For the defense, the timing matters because the notice was the mechanism that kept the pair visible across borders while the case moved through separate legal tracks. Once that notice fell away, the international label changed even though the domestic case did not.
Claudia Sheinbaum addressed the development on September 30 and said, “Me comentaron hoy en la mañana que le quitaron.” That remark made the change public after the fact and fixed the date of the handoff inside the government’s own timeline.
Interpreting article 3
The defense had pushed the case before Interpol’s committee on October 13, 2025, arguing that the matter ran against article 3 of Interpol's constitution because it was politically motivated. It also argued that sending the pair to México would expose them to a real risk of arbitrary detention because of preventive prison oficiosa, and that public exposure since 2021 violated the right to a fair trial and the presumption of innocence.
That argument was not built only on theory. The defense said México has already been sanctioned by the CIDH for abuse of preventive prison oficiosa, and that the lack of an effectively independent judicial power helped keep the case in the public eye before any merits ruling. Interpol’s cancellation suggests that those arguments cleared a threshold at the international level, even if the source does not spell out every internal reason.
Mexico's arrest order remains
The arrest order against both was issued in 2021, and that order remains valid in México. The defense filed an amparo in November 2021, entered the case in a court in Ciudad de México on January 9, 2022, and challenged a warrant issued by a federal judge of the Centro de Justicia Penal Federal del Altiplano for peculado, lavado de dinero and delincuencia organizada.
The procedural fight stalled through postponements and then a jurisdictional conflict among courts in Ciudad de México, Estado de México and Sinaloa. That conflict was resolved in 2026 by assigning the case to a district court of the Segundo Circuito in Estado de México.
The case behind the notice
The underlying file is tied to the FGR's allegation that the pair led a structure that used ghost companies to divert federal resources tied to prison-system contracts signed during the sexenio of Enrique Peña Nieto. The judge who issued the arrest warrant rejected the claim that both were the leaders of that criminal structure.
What changes now is not the criminal case in México, but the reach of the notice that moved the case across borders. Why Interpol decided to cancel the red notice now is not explained in the source, and that is the line readers should watch next: the international alert is gone, but the Mexican warrant still gives the case legal force at home.
