Roberto Borge’s Legal Team Files Complaint Over Delay in Home Detention Hearing

Cancún, Quintana Roo — Lawyers for former Quintana Roo Governor Roberto Borge Angulo have filed a complaint with a federal appeals court in Nezahualcóyotl, State of Mexico, challenging the refusal and delay in holding a hearing that would allow him to serve his remaining sentence under house arrest.

The legal move follows a ruling on May 28, 2026, in which a federal judge formally acquitted Borge of organized crime charges. That decision lifted the mandatory pretrial detention that had kept him at the Federal Psychosocial Rehabilitation Center (Ceferepsi) in Morelos, allowing him to face his remaining criminal proceedings outside prison.

Pending Hearing for Home Detention

Despite being granted the benefit of home detention for his last criminal case — related to money laundering — Borge’s transfer has been stalled. According to the complaint file (10/2026), his attorneys challenged the postponement of a hearing before a district judge at the Federal Criminal Justice Center in Nezahualcóyotl.

The purpose of the hearing is logistical and supervisory: to verify security protocols and order the placement of an electronic monitoring bracelet at his designated residence in the State of Mexico.

“The court has failed to rule on the merits, order, advance, and carry out the necessary procedural actions to set a date and time for the hearing and, in that same act, to place the electronic location device,” the defense document states, citing Article 135 of the National Code of Criminal Procedure.

Current Legal Status

Borge, who governed Quintana Roo from 2011 to 2016, was arrested in Panama in 2017 and extradited to Mexico in early 2018. Following his acquittal on organized crime charges in late May 2026, money laundering is the only federal accusation that still warrants a precautionary measure. He seeks to serve that measure under house arrest as soon as the judicial authority sets a date for the electronic device placement.