Anti-Corruption · Mexico

Key Facts

—The penalty. Four former Segalmex officials were fined a joint 777.8 million pesos ($40m) and barred from public office for ten years.

—The agency. Segalmex was the state food-distribution body at the centre of the previous government’s largest corruption scandal.

—The conduct. The ruling covers the misuse of funds from a guaranteed-price food programme during 2019 alone.