Mexico City Prosecutors Report 76 Arrest Warrants in Fraud Cases
Mexico City's prosecutor's office has 76 arrest warrants in three types of fraud cases and asks victims of four firms to come forward.
Mexico City’s attorney general’s office, the FGJ-CDMX (Fiscalía General de Justicia), says it holds 76 arrest warrants across three kinds of fraud it calls typical in the city: investment fraud, real estate fraud and fake services, according to El Universal. Prosecutor Bertha Alcalde Luján gave the numbers while presenting the office’s security report for October 2026.
She also asked people harmed by four specific companies to come forward so that prosecutors can reinforce the open case files.
Warrants and victims by type of fraud
- Investment fraud: 14 cases, 66 arrest warrants and a number of identified victims in the thousands.
- Real estate fraud (selling or renting properties that do not exist or belong to someone else): six cases, 222 victims and seven warrants.
- Fake services: three cases, 169 victims and three warrants.
Alcalde Luján said the office has given priority to fraud by companies or by people who have hundreds or even thousands of victims.
The four companies named
MetaXChange is the largest case listed. The fraud is put at roughly 181 million pesos, based on 293 investigations and 358 identified victims. Authorities have executed 17 arrest warrants, and three suspects are in pretrial detention.
Strategic Capital Agency is described as an investment scheme that collected money through financial advisers who promised returns above the market. Eight warrants have been executed and eight suspects are held in pretrial detention.
For the supposed company BRAJ, the fraud reaches 30 million pesos, with 57 investigation files and 68 victims. The warrant against one suspect, María “N”, has been carried out, and she is in pretrial detention.
XY Booster has an identified fraud amount of one million pesos and 302 registered investigation files. Authorities arrested one of the suspects and placed that person in pretrial detention. Other warrants have not yet been executed.
How the office is investigating
Alcalde Luján attributed the results to a strategy that created an agency for multiple fraud inside the Fiscalía Especializada de Delitos Financieros (the specialized prosecutor’s office for financial crimes). The office also operates a Criminal Analysis Unit that links several investigations together. In her words, these cases cannot be investigated file by file, and prosecutors need the information from all of them.
Why it matters for residents
Frauds with many victims can surface as many separate complaints. The office is asking anyone affected by MetaXChange, Strategic Capital Agency, BRAJ or XY Booster to approach the institution, which it says will strengthen existing investigations. Several warrants in the XY Booster case are still pending.
Source: El Universal
