Judge in Assault Case Blocked by Financial Intelligence Unit

Cancún. Judicial reviews conducted by Sol Quintana Roo have identified José Luis Jonathan Yong Mendoza, the recently suspended judge for assaulting a woman with a firearm, on the list of bank accounts blocked by Mexico’s Financial Intelligence Unit (UIF) for money laundering.

The suspended control judge, who was caught on camera assaulting a woman using a firearm, has been revealed as having a criminal record and appears on the list of bank accounts blocked for money laundering by the UIF.

In case file 110/F/B/978/2021, obtained by this media outlet, the name of the oral criminal judge who was elected in the recent judicial elections appears.

This list also includes José de la Peña Ruiz de Chávez, former head of the Quintana Roo Executive Office and current magistrate of the Superior Court of Justice of the Judicial Power of Quintana Roo.

Yong Mendoza filed for an injunction in March 2021 to unblock his bank funds, days after his accounts at Banorte, HSBC, Scotiabank Inverlat, and American Express were frozen.

The case file shows that on February 27, his injunction against the UIF’s actions was denied because he had other similar pending procedures to resolve.

“Therefore, since the direct amparo trial is currently pending resolution, it is estimated that agreement 10/2021 issued by the Head of the Financial Intelligence Unit, through which he was incorporated into the List of Blocked Persons referred to in Article 115 of the Credit Institutions Law,” reads the indirect amparo sentence 217/2021.

José Luis Jonathan Yong Mendoza was captured on camera assaulting a woman with a firearm on December 24 in the Palmaris subdivision, in one of the most shameful episodes of the judicial system not only in Quintana Roo but in Mexico.

Feminist collectives have requested exemplary punishment for the judge who worked in Playa del Carmen, where he had recently resolved process linkages for crimes related to gender violence.