The Federal Court of Administrative Justice (TFJA) official, who earns a net salary of 115,629 pesos per month and reports owning a 1.3 million peso BMW, a house, and two apartments, has made 57 trips, including travel expenses from the treasury, in addition to paying for her telephone service.
Mexico City, September 22 (SinEmbargo).– Federal Magistrate Magda Zulema Mosri Gutiérrez has earned more than 100,000 pesos per month for 15 years, and her wealth declarations clearly show her wealth, thanks to the purchase of expensive vehicles and at least one house and two apartments.
In addition, during her time at the Federal Administrative Court of Justice (TFJA), the official has also had the benefit of having the public budget pay for her telephone service and, so far, 57 official trips, including travel expenses. Six of them were international, to countries such as Argentina, Morocco, and Bolivia. All of this cost the treasury at least 1.2 million pesos from 2012 to the present, as recorded in the TFJA budget transparency documents reviewed by the SinEmbargo Data Unit.
In total, from 2022 to 2025, judges of the TFJA Superior Chamber and the Governing Board spent 804,000 pesos on representation and travel expenses alone. This includes everything from Starbucks coffee and Hilton hotel stays to restaurant bills of nearly 8,000 pesos, like the one recorded by Justice Hortensia García in June 2024.
Mosri Gutiérrez’s Trips
Of the 57 trips recorded by Zulema Mosri, the most expensive was the one she made to Buenos Aires in May 2018, to represent the Court at the Biennial Conference of the International Association of Women Judges (AIWJ).
The “commission” lasted five days, and the flight cost 90,639 pesos, plus travel expenses of 130,210 pesos. Invoices detailing the travel expenses for that trip were not found on the TFJA website.
Of the international trips, only the invoice for the commission to Morocco, also for the international meeting of women judges, was found. The document shows that on that occasion, she stayed for five days at the Novotel Marrakech Hivernage hotel, paying 17,234 pesos through the Sonora Turismo Palo Verde travel agency.
The data review also highlights that of the 57 flights, 12 were destined for Sonora, her home state. It is the state to which she traveled the most. Baja California appears next on the list, with seven flights.
Of her trips to Sonora, on four of them between 2023 and 2024, she mentioned that the purpose was to meet with the governor regarding the possible donation of a property to the Northwest II Regional Chamber of the Court. On each occasion, she reported “significant progress” in these meetings; however, no communication or information note was found confirming that the donation actually materialized.
In 2024, she traveled to Nuevo León to attend the inauguration of Samuel García of the Movimiento Ciudadano party. The flight cost 11,742 pesos, and her travel expenses totaled 1,734 pesos for just one day of commission. To justify the move, in the document he sent to the TFJA, he stated that the trip had served to “demonstrate that Monterrey is an economic engine of Mexico.”
Other trips or “commissions” were for the inauguration of regional headquarters, conferences, signing of agreements, or assemblies. The trip to Bolivia in 2016, which cost 95,000 pesos, was to participate in the Latin American Tax Law Conference. The five-day trip to Washington in 2014 was to represent the Court at the Annual Meeting of the International Association of Tax Judges.
A review of her invoices shows that on her trip to Mérida, Yucatán, in March 2024, she stayed at the Villa Mercedes Curio Collection by Hilton hotel, paying 2,300 pesos. In March of the same year, but in Oaxaca, she stayed at the Quinta Real hotel, paying 7,378 pesos, including taxes.
On a trip to Puebla in September 2024, he paid for a 2,064-peso meal at the La Noria restaurant and bar, and spent 876 pesos on Starbucks drinks out of the treasury.
Mosri Gutiérrez began her professional career as a Process Control Secretary attached to the Deputy Attorney General’s Office of the Sonora Attorney General’s Office in 1990. From 2003 to 2027, she worked for the administration of PRI member Eduardo Bours, who was accused by the families of the victims of the fire at the ABC Daycare Center in Sonora. During that time, she held the positions of Executive Coordinator of Legislative and Regulatory Studies and Undersecretary attached to the General Legal Directorate of the Ministry of the Interior.
During Felipe Calderón’s administration, she was appointed Magistrate of the Second Chamber of the Northwest I Regional Court (2009) and shortly thereafter (2011) to the Superior Chamber of the Federal Administrative Court of Justice for the 2012-2027 term.
Nominated by the Judiciary, she sought to become a Justice of the Supreme Court of Justice of the Nation (SCJN) this year. However, she only received 613,469 votes in the election, barely 0.52 percent of the total registered by candidates for the highest court.
Luxury Cars and High-End Properties
Mosri Gutiérrez’s first asset declaration that appears in the Declaranet system dates back to 2010, when she began her position as Regional Magistrate of the TFJA (Federal Court of Justice). At that time, she reported a net monthly income from her position as a public official of 116,500 pesos.
She reported owning a 130-square-meter house, which she paid for in cash in 2001 for 400,000 pesos. She also stated that she had borrowed money since 2006 to pay for a 252-square-meter house, valued at 2,169,864 pesos.
Regarding vehicles, she indicated that she owned a 2007 Ford Explorer pickup truck, with a credit payment since 2006 for 428,000 pesos. She also reported a Highlander Sport pickup truck with a credit payment since 2010 for 458,000 pesos. She also had an investment fund with a balance of 916,431 pesos.
When she finished her term as Regional Magistrate and began her work as a Superior Court Magistrate in 2012, she refused to make her assets public. This opacity continued in the following years. From 2013 to 2019, she chose to conceal the information.
She made her assets public again in 2021. She reported a net monthly salary, including salary, bonus, Christmas bonus, and other compensation, of 180,000 pesos. That is, 2,160,729 pesos per year.
At that time, the 252-square-meter house followed again, but also the purchase on credit in 2010 of a 277-square-meter apartment, valued at 2,749,100 pesos.
And another of the same size but valued at 7 million pesos, purchased on credit in 2018. Together, two apartments for almost 10 million pesos.
The 2010 tax return was filed on January 12, and the purchase of the 277-square-meter apartment occurred on March 29 of the same year, a few months later.
In 2021, he no longer reported the SUVs. He claimed to own a 2016 Infiniti, valued at 964,900 pesos, which he paid for in cash. He also owned a 2019 Audi valued at 1,075,000 pesos, which he also paid for in cash.
In his most recent tax return, from 2025, Mosri Gutiérrez reported a net annual salary of 2,847,044 pesos. This is an average of 237,253 pesos per month, considering salaries, Christmas bonuses, and other benefits.
If only his salary is considered, the Transparent Payroll system indicates a net monthly salary of 115,629 pesos.
Regarding property, he reported the same house and two apartments, although the vehicles no longer listed the same cars, but rather a 2022 BMW purchased outright in 2023 for 1,300,000 pesos. The vehicle was listed as an “aircraft” in the tax return, but there was no indication that BMW owns a similar aircraft, the X5M.
Source: Sin Embargo
