The UIF explained that, of the 39.55 billion pesos (2.19 billion dollars) that the UIF has ordered to block in the recent decade as a precautionary measure, 88.9 percent of that money has been recovered by criminals in court, most of it through “protection.”

Data from the UIF, which depends on the Ministry of Finance, reveal that of that fortune frozen since 2014 with the aim of preventing and detecting links to the financing of terrorism and laundering of illicit resources, as of May 2023 only 244 million dollars remain immobilized.

Practically nine out of every 10 pesos that the UIF has blocked as part of investigations for fraud, tax fraud, crimes against health, organized crime, oil or petrochemical theft, unlawful exercise of public service, and extortion, have been recovered in judicial instances by the persons under investigation.

In total, of that money unfrozen in almost a decade, 26.8 percent was through the guarantee of hearing, 72.4 by “protection” trials and 0.8 released in 2017, 2018 and 2020, the mechanism by which they were unfrozen is not identified, he indicated.

Only in the accumulated to May 2023, the Treasury unit in charge of Pablo Gómez reports that it has blocked 346 million pesos (20 million dollars), and in those five months, via “protection” trials, people under investigation for alleged crimes of money laundering or terrorism financing have recovered 30 thousand dollars.

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