This municipality was also headed by Erika Sevilla Alvarado, from MORENA, in 2024. In third place is the capital of the State of Mexico, Toluca, with a pending amount of 287.4 million pesos. From 2023 to 2024, this municipality was headed by the PRI member Juan Maccise Naime, after his predecessor, Raymundo Martínez Carbajal, was imprisoned on charges of express kidnapping. You may be interested > Superior Audit detects 810 million pesos to be clarified in a section of the Transoceanic Train that derailed. After Toluca, Huixquilucan is in fourth place with the most observations, totaling 262.6 million. The person who governed the locality during the irregularities detected by the ASF was the PAN member Romina Contreras, re-elected in 2024 for the position. In turn, Federalized Expenditure is the amount that the Federation transfers to the states and municipalities. In its third installment of results from the audit of the Public Account 2024, the Superior Audit analyzed all the resources that the federal government gave to the 125 municipalities of the State of Mexico, an amount that amounts to 9 billion 931 million 206.1 pesos, of which more than 7 billion could not be justified or proven. The municipality with the highest ASF observation is Valle de Chalco Solidaridad, with a total of 966.3 million pesos to be clarified, which represents 100% of its entire Federal Expenditure. The municipal president of this locality during the period analyzed by the ASF was Armando García Méndez, a MORENA party member who headed the government since 2019, after his predecessor Francisco Tenorio Contreras died in office. García Méndez held the position until December 31, 2024. Valle de Chalco is followed by Otzolotepec, with 295.2 million pesos to be clarified. The Superior Audit of the Federation (ASF) detected that the municipalities of the State of Mexico together have a total of 7 billion 68 million 706.8 pesos to be clarified, which represents 71.17% of all the expenditure that the Federation gives to local governments. According to the official glossary of the report from the Superior Audit of the Federation (ASF), the 'Amounts to be Clarified' are defined as the monetary amounts that, at the time of the audit's closing, lacked documentary and justifying proof that accredited how those public resources were applied. Her husband is Senator Enrique Vargas del Villar, municipal president of Huixquilucan in the period 2016 to 2021. Finally, in fifth place is Atizapán de Zaragoza with 240.6 million MXN. The current mayor of this locality, Pedro Rodríguez Villegas, took office in 2021 and was re-elected in 2024 with the PRI-PAN-PRD alliance.
ASF Detects Billions in Irregularities in Mexican Municipalities
Mexico's Superior Audit Office (ASF) found that municipalities in the State of Mexico have over 70 billion pesos in unclarified funds. This represents over 71% of all federal funds transferred to local governments. Top municipalities for unclarified amounts include Valle de Chalco Solidaridad, Toluca, and Huixquilucan.