Civil Society Organizations and a victim filed four complaints before the National Electoral Institute (INE) against 11 candidates of the judicial election for their alleged links with organized crime and the Church of the Light of the World, according to a note of the Political Animal Website.
The complaints, led by lawyer Miguel Alfonso Meza of the Defensorxs organization, together with Electoral Laboratory and Politiklab, told candidates for judges and magistrates for their alleged relations with illegal activities and with the religious sect led by Nassón Joaquín García, convicted in the United States for serious crimes.
Among those indicated by Nexos with organized crime include Fernando Escamilla Villareal and Jesús Humberto Padilla Briones, candidates in Nuevo León.
Escamilla, sentenced by illegal weapons, defended Los Zetas leaders such as Eleazar Medina Rojas and Miguel Ángel Treviño Morales. Padilla Briones was arrested in 2023 with drugs and a firearm.
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Francisco Herrera Franco, former former Michoacán, is also denounced for his alleged links with organized crime and related to the murder of two journalists, according to journalistic investigations.
As for the light of the world, complaints point to candidates such as Madián Sinai Menchaca Sierra, daughter of a church leader; Cinthia Guadalupe Lieutenant Mendoza, linked to a sympathizer senator of the sect, and Betzabé Almazán Morales, indicated by publicly defending Nassón Joaquín García.
Other applicants, such as Eluzai Rafael Aguilar and Job Daniel Ibarra Wong, are also questioned by their alleged proximity to religious organization.
The organizations demanded that the INE thoroughly investigate these cases to guarantee the suitability of the candidates in the judicial election, highlighting the seriousness of the accusations and their impact on the delivery of justice in Mexico.
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