On August 30, 2017, the Board of Directors unanimously approved a settlement agreement to compensate Telra with 5,080 million pesos. However, on January 26, 2018, representatives of Infonavit filed a complaint with the Attorney General's Office (FGR) for the probable crime of abuse of authority against those responsible for signing the original contracts. Although in September 2018 the Public Ministry decided not to exercise criminal action, a control judge revoked said resolution in January 2019, instructing the continuation of the investigations. The FGR maintains that the payment of the compensation could be fraudulent, as the company lacked the necessary infrastructure to fulfill the contracts initially signed. On February 10, 2020, in the morning conference of former President Andrés Manuel López Obrador, then Attorney General of the Republic, Alejandro Gertz Manero, presented a check for 2,000 million pesos, supposedly recovered from the “Infonavit Affair”. This delivery derived from an opportunity criterion requested by the entrepreneurs Max and André El-Mann, who transferred the resources after the blocking of their accounts by the Financial Intelligence Unit, according to media reports. For his part, Rafael Zaga Tawil, a Telra executive, rejected the procedure and denounced external pressures and persecution by the FGR. The Prosecutor's Office requested arrest warrants for organized crime and money laundering. On April 30, 2021, Teófilo Zaga Tawil, Rafael's brother, was detained and entered the maximum security prison of Altiplano. Teófilo Zaga was imprisoned for almost two years, but on November 15, 2023, he regained his freedom after obtaining a change of precautionary measure. Meanwhile, his brother Rafael Zaga Tawil and his son Elías Zaga Hanono definitively won an amparo lawsuit to have the arrest warrants against them for the crimes of organized crime and money laundering canceled, on the grounds that the FGR's accusations were unconstitutional. However, in 2024, the FGR itself reactivated these arrest warrants. This case was one of those documented in the Televisa Leaks series of reports, as part of the paid campaigns by Metrics to Index pages and used by the television station in black campaigns. On May 31, 2017, the Board of Directors agreed to terminate the contractual situation with the company prematurely. Telra qualified the decision as arbitrary and unjustified, and the parties initiated a mediation process. On November 5 of that year, it was formalized that the development of the technological platform would not generate costs for Infonavit, as Telra would assume the investment in exchange for a five-year exclusivity to operate the program. According to the initial agreement, Infonavit would provide the real estate, while Telra would be in charge of the investment for its reconstruction and the management of mortgage mobility programs. The contractual relationship expanded in 2015 with the signing of trademark license contracts and the implementation of the Mortgage Mobility Program (PMH). The businessman Rafael Zaga Tawil is in custody of the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), according to the agency's Detainee Locator. According to the ICE portal, Zaga Tawil is in the Glades County Detention Center, located in Florida, the same place where a 19-year-old Mexican young man recently died. In the past, Rafael Zaga's lawyers managed to invalidate or annul several attempts by the FGR to impute the crimes of money laundering and organized crime against him, so sources close to the case ruled out that there is an extradition order against him. The businessman is investigated in Mexico for a probable fraud against the Institute of the National Housing Fund for Workers (Infonavit) with the company Telra Realty, a case that dates back to 2014. At that time, both entities signed a cooperation agreement aimed at the recovery and remodeling of abandoned homes for subsequent commercialization among the beneficiaries. However, after the appointment of David Penchyna as director of the Institute in March 2016, the agency's position changed.
