(7 Sep 2025)
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ASSOCIATED PRESS
Mexico City – 7 September 2025
1. Various of Mexican Security Secretary Omar García Harfuch, Attorney General Alejandro Gertz Manero, and Navy Secretary Raymundo Pedro Morales Ángeles arriving at news conference
2. Various of briefing
3. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Omar García Harfuch, Secretary of Security and Citizen Protection of Mexico:
"In recent days, operations were carried out in the states of Nuevo León, Tamaulipas, Veracruz, and Mexico City, where arrest warrants were executed against three businessmen, five active marines, one retired marine, and five former customs officials."
4. Various of briefing
5. Camera operator
6. Wide of briefing
7. Close of man’s jacket reading (Spanish) ‘General Directorate of Social Communication’
8. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Raymundo Pedro Morales Ángeles, Secretary of the Navy of Mexico:
"We are acting decisively against a few individuals, who do not represent the Navy, which has safeguarded its honor for more than 200 years. In the Navy, the law applies to everyone."
7. Various of briefing
8. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Alejandro Gertz Manero, Mexican Attorney General:
"There are fugitive people, and there will be many more arrest warrants."
9. Cameras
10. García Harfuch, Gertz Manero, and Pedro Morales Ángeles leaving news conference
STORYLINE:
Mexico’s top prosecutor said Sunday the government planned to order the arrests of “many more” people — including potentially government officials — involved in fuel theft networks between Mexico and the United States.
On Saturday, the Mexican government announced the arrest of a senior Mexican navy officer, who is related to the former head of Mexico’s navy.
He was arrested along with 13 others officials and business leaders connected with a massive fuel seizure in northern Mexico.
The head of Mexico’s prosecutor’s office Alejandro Gertz Manero and other officials said the arrest was a sign that the government was cracking down on fuel theft, known in Mexico as huachicol.
Critics say it’s just a sign of the depth of the problem.
The detention notably comes just days after Secretary of State Marco Rubio paid a visit to Mexico to discuss security issues, and put pressure on the Mexican government to crack down on fuel theft, which has gradually lined the pockets of Mexican cartels.
Fuel theft is a major problem in the Latin American nation, and has cost the state-owned oil company Pemex $3.8 billion in just five years.
The fuel is often illegally tapped and resold in Mexico, or cheaper gasoline or diesel are bought in U.S. border states like Texas and smuggled into Mexico without paying import taxes.
Gertz Manero and Mexico’s Secretary of Security, Omar García Harfuch, maintained on Sunday that these were "isolated cases" within the Navy and sidestepped questions about the depth of fuel theft networks within the government.
Observers have long commented that extensive corruption is required for these criminal networks to be so successful.
The arrest of 14 individuals has further confirmed these suspicions, providing further evidence that the illegal networks profiting from fuel theft are supported by broader levels of corruption in the Mexican government and businesses.
Navy Secretary Raymundo Pedro Morales Ángeles emphasized that there will be no corruption within the institution.
"We are acting decisively against a few individuals, who do not represent the Navy, which has safeguarded its honor for more than 200 years. In the Navy, the law applies to everyone," he said.
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