Arturo Millet Reyes faces potential release in fraud case

Mérida, Yucatán — The Third District Court of Mérida will decide this Tuesday whether businessman Arturo Millet Reyes, accused of a multi-million peso fraud, regains his freedom after being detained in the Cereso de Mérida prison.

The court scheduled an incidental hearing for Tuesday within a writ of amparo proceeding initiated by Millet Reyes, who was detained on November 22.

According to the indirect amparo file 2307/2025 reviewed by Sol Quintana Roo, the controversial businessman requested the amparo and protection of federal justice on November 25 against the re-arrest order and its execution.

On November 25, he obtained a provisional suspension that places him at the disposal of the federal judge but does not allow him to regain his freedom.

Therefore, it will be until Wednesday when more will be known about his legal situation following this hearing to determine whether he leaves the Cereso de Mérida, where he is being held under an arrest warrant executed by ministerial police of that state.

The businessman is accused of a 117 million peso fraud. This media outlet reported that the Yucatán Prosecutor’s Office requested a review of precautionary measures to prevent him, if he paid the 2.8 million dollars in case file 150/2022, from being released and escaping the state or country.

The previous legal actions occurred in Yucatán; however, in Playa del Carmen he also left his trail of controversy with business dealings executed through the creation of the In House development, which he left unfinished and led to the invasion of the same name.

In this city, he was sued by the Playa del Carmen Ejido for various debts related to the purchase of the land where these houses were built.

Arturo Millet, along with other partners, founded the commercial companies In House and In Jaus.

These companies left hundreds of families adrift who, believing in House, purchased single-family social housing units in the western extreme of Playa del Carmen, near Misión de las Flores and Constituyentes Avenue with Lilis.

There were approximately 200 homes that were left unfinished and in legal uncertainty because around 2012 the project was abandoned.