A federal judge in Baja California has denied the unfreezing of the bank accounts of Morena federal representative Hilda Araceli Brown Figueredo, who is accused by US authorities of having alleged ties to the “La Mayiza” criminal faction of the Sinaloa Cartel.
The ruling came after the legislator requested a provisional suspension following her inclusion on the list of blocked persons by the Financial Intelligence Unit (UIF) of the Ministry of Finance and Public Credit (SHCP), a measure taken in response to a financial alert issued by the US Treasury Department.
According to information from Milenio, the Tenth District Court in Baja California, presided over by Judge Marco Antonio Arreola Herrera, ruled that Brown Figueredo did not present documentary evidence proving her ownership of the frozen bank accounts.
The Baja California legislator filed the appeal for protection on October 2, 2025, after one of her accounts was blocked. The request sought “a suspension of the contested acts, so that the undersigned may be removed from the list of blocked persons and, thereby, may access the funds in the accounts that were blocked due to unconstitutional acts,” it read.
In the ruling, the judge ordered that the UIF must submit a report on this case within 48 hours. If this deadline is not met, the judge will consider the representative’s claim valid only for the purposes of the suspension process; that is, he will assume that what she claims about the contested act is true, but only to consider whether or not the requested provisional suspension is admissible.
