103 Companies Fined for Corruption in 2025

In December alone, 18 government supplier companies that engaged in acts of corruption were fined and disqualified by the Anti-Corruption Secretariat.

Corruption persists in government public procurement procedures related to the use of federal funds. The year ended with 18 companies barred from bidding on government contracts and fined for irregularities ranging from the health sector and the maintenance of government office buildings to the rehabilitation of drinking water systems and supplies for the Maya Train project.

The sum of the sanctions imposed during December 2025 by the Anti-Corruption and Good Governance Secretariat (SABG), headed by Raquel Buenrostro Sánchez, is 10 million 433 thousand pesos, according to the agency's Directory of Sanctioned Bidders, Suppliers and Contractors.

Seven companies that failed to comply with infrastructure contracts received the largest fine—977,130 pesos each—as well as the longest disqualification period of one year and six months.

The number of sanctions imposed by the agency was higher, but some companies managed to file legal appeals, thus suspending the penalties until the litigation is resolved. This is the case of Equipos y Maquinaria Industrial de México SA de CV, which, according to the SABG statement, breached a contract related to the acquisition of materials for the construction of the Maya Train, Section 7, between Bacalar, Quintana Roo, and Escárcega, Campeche. The penalty was published in the Official Gazette of the Federation on December 4, 2025, but a month later—at the time of writing—it does not appear in the Directory.

The submission of falsified documents is prevalent among these companies, which will be barred from bidding on public contracts for at least the first few months of the new year. This scheme involves a range of methods: forged accreditation documents from the Mexican Social Security Institute (IMSS), fabricated certifications claiming to be social enterprises, paperwork to import products from India (a country with which Mexico has no trade agreements), and even a falsified high school diploma for one of the employees.

The companies with the highest penalties are construction companies that failed in procedures for the rehabilitation of the drinking water system in several municipalities of the State of Mexico.

In addition to the sanctions imposed, the SABG reported that it was investigating the national public tender for electronic food vouchers intended for federal employees. The winning company, Servicios Broxel SAPI de CV, allegedly failed to deliver to more than 2,200 locations nationwide and lacked accurate information on unit prices. According to Compras MX, 224 government entities were affected.

This is the second investigation of its kind undertaken by the agency. The first concerned the consolidated mega-purchase of medications by Laboratorios de Biológicos y Reactivos de México, which resulted in the complete annulment of the bidding process.

Under Raquel Buenrostro, the Anti-Corruption Office imposed 103 sanctions in 2025.

On November 28, 2024, the Senate of the Republic ratified Raquel Buenrostro Sánchez as secretary of the SABG, a new federal agency tasked with tackling corruption, in addition to inheriting the functions of the National Institute of Transparency, Access to Information and Protection of Personal Data, which at that time was on the verge of extinction.

The new agency was established within the structure of the Public Service Secretariat, which for two decades had been responsible for sanctioning suppliers with irregular practices. Since then, not a single month has passed without the anti-corruption body imposing penalties on irregular companies employed by the public administration.

During the past year, the Anti-Corruption Prosecutor's Office issued 103 disqualifications and financial penalties. These were levied against 99 companies. Four of them received double penalties for different corruption-related actions. These are Construcción, Ingeniería y Acabados Arogg SA de CV (medical sector), Impromed SA de CV (medical sector), Javac Construcciones SA de CV (aeronautical sector), and Strongtex SA de CV (clothing sector).

December saw the highest number of companies facing disqualification for acts of corruption. June had the second-highest number of sanctions, with 15, followed by May with 12. February (three) and September (four) had the fewest companies sanctioned for corruption.

The pharmaceutical sector—after the cancellation of the consolidated mega-purchase of medicines—and the clothing sector—after failures in the supply of tactical equipment to the armed forces—are the ones that have been most under the scrutiny of the new secretariat.

The fines total 60,556,545 pesos. In other words, these entities owe the Mexican government this compensation for nearly causing, or having caused, harm to public funds. This amount is in addition to previous sanctions imposed by the former Ministry of Public Administration that remain unpaid. The SABG received a file containing a list of 2,388 sanctioned suppliers who have not paid fines totaling 1,383,554,849 pesos.