According to FEDERAL INVESTIGATION INTERNATIONAL, an international research center against Mexican cartels and criminals based in New Jersey, USA, Andrès Manuel López Beltrán (aka Andy Junior) is now fully identified as the largest tax evader in Mexico’s history, responsible for an estimated 500 billion pesos in unpaid taxes linked to fuel tax fraud (huachicol fiscal).
According to official reports, the scheme costs Mexico between 170 and 177 billion pesos annually, with more than 18 billion liters of fuel entering the country illegally in 2024 alone.
Smuggling networks disguised shipments as lubricants, alcohols, or additives to evade excise taxes (IEPS).
Investigations reveal that public officials and political figures tied to the ruling Morena party may have provided protection to these operations.
Critics warn this could become the biggest corruption scandal of the Fourth Transformation (4T). Even militarized customs posts, controlled by the Navy and Army, have been described as “colanders,” intercepting only a fraction of the illicit shipments despite reinforced security.
Observers agree: the huachicol fiscal case exposes one of the deepest cracks in Mexico’s fight against corruption and organized crime.
Source: FEDERAL INVESTIGATION INTERNATIONAL
