A collegiate court in Mexico revoked the precautionary measure that protected businessman Raúl Rocha Cantú, co-owner of the Miss Universe pageant, and he must therefore appear in court to explain his alleged participation in a criminal organization dedicated to arms and hydrocarbon trafficking. The Attorney General’s Office, led by current former prosecutor Alejandro Gertz Manero, signed an agreement as a collaborating witness that was canceled last week by the new head of the FGR Ernestina Godoy, who considers Rocha Cantú a “fugitive” from Mexican justice.
According to the newspaper MillenniumThe Second Collegiate Criminal Court of the Fourth Judicial Circuit granted the dismissal requested by the Office of the Attorney General of the Republic, following the departure of Alejandro Gertz Manero, dismissed from office on November 28.
The new prosecution closed the circle around the controversial businessman, who had monopolized the spotlight since the triumph of the Mexican Fátima Bosch in the Miss Universe 2025 competition, when one of the members of the jury revealed alleged bribes paid by the tycoon. He was later accused of participating in a plot to smuggle fuel, weapons and drugs from Guatemala, linking him to the Jalisco Nueva Generación (CJNG) cartel and La Unión Tepito.
At the time of Gertz Manero, the FGR had granted the businessman the benefit of collaborative testimony, which allowed him to avoid the first arrest warrant against him. However, this privilege was suspended based on three main arguments: the failure to appear before the Secretariat of Security and Citizen Protection, the failure to appear before the Special Prosecutor’s Office for Organized Crime of the FGR and the request of the representatives of Petróleos Mexicanos to cancel the agreement, considering that Rocha Cantú did not meet the conditions to remain as a cooperating witness.
Rocha Cantú managed to get a criminal judge in the state of Nuevo León to grant him protection from appearance, arguing that his personal safety is in danger and despite the second arrest warrant issued against him; but the said measure was revoked by the Collegiate Court.
According to Millenniumjudges Carlos Alberto Flores Alamilla and Víctor Hugo Alejo Guerrero voted in favor of revoking the precautionary measure, arguing that witnesses are obliged to appear in person; while Judge Sara Verónica Siller Morquecho voted against and ruled in favor of a remote appearance, as Rocha Cantú had proposed.
According to newspaper information The UniversalSince December 15, a new arrest warrant has been issued after Rocha Cantú refused to provide information, missed two appearances and falsified his addresses. The prosecution believes that the businessman, who recently announced that he would move the Miss Universe headquarters from Mexico to New York, is abroad.
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