MEXICO CITY, October 25, 2025 (El Universal).– At the request of the Attorney General’s Office (FGR), a Control Judge linked Alicia Paola Barrientos de la Peña to criminal proceedingsa former federal public defender who requested various amounts of money from her client to obtain his freedom.
At the initial court hearing, the Specialized Regional Control Prosecutor’s Office (FECOR), of the FGRpresented the test data to judge Control assigned to the Federal Criminal Justice Center in the state of Quintana Rooresiding in Cancun.
According to ministerial investigations, the former public defender requested various amounts of money from the person she was defending, who at the time was arrested and prosecuted in a criminal case.
Alicia Paola Barrientos de la Peña He told his client that the money was to be able to obtain his freedom and to comply with one of the conditions imposed on him by the Control Judge.
After knowing the test data, the Control Judge in Cancun linked the process to the former civil servant of the Federal Institute of the Federal Public Defender (IFDP)dependent on the Supreme Court of Justice of the Nation (SCJN)for the crimes of fraud and bribery.
Given this, Alicia Barrientos de la Peña requested the conditional suspension of the processfor a period of 10 months to repair the damage to the victim.
Another linked: due to failed fraud
In another criminal case, the Federal Public Ministry (MPF), of the Special Prosecutor’s Office for Investigation and Litigation of Complex Cases (FEILC)presented sufficient test data for a control judge of the Federal Criminal Justice Center based in the Reclusorio Oriente in the Mexico City links Héctor Miguel Arroyo Orrante to the process for the crime of attempted fraud.
In addition, the judge imposed the precautionary measure of justified preventive detention and gave to the FEILC period of two months for the complementary investigation to close.
According to the FGR, Orrante Stream allegedly carried out a telephone call to an area of the FGR in which requested money deposits posing as a federal public servant.