The Attorney General’s Office (FGR) detained Gilda Susana Lozoya, sister of the former director of Pemex, Emilio Lozoya Austin, at the Benito Juárez International Airport in Mexico City. The capture occurred when completing a 2020 arrest warrant for his alleged participation in a money laundering scheme linked to the purchase of the Agronitrogenados plant.
Case details
Elements from the Criminal Investigation Agency (AIC), the Secretariat of Security and Citizen Protection (SSPC) and the Secretariat of the Navy (SEMAR) participated in the operation. According to the FGR, Gilda Susana would have been a beneficiary of resources related to the acquisition of the plant, which Pemex purchased in 2014 at a premium and which, at the time of purchase, had obsolete equipment and had not been in operation for years.
The detainee was presented before the control judge of the North Prison, Nora Ileana García Peralta, elected by popular vote. During the initial hearing, when asked if she agreed to be represented by lawyers Alejandro Rojas Pruneda and Ana Lilia Sánchez Villalobos, she responded:
“Yes, I accept”
Lawyer Rojas Pruneda requested a two-hour recess to preliminarily review the 70,000 pages of the accusation delivered by the FGR. The proceedings will resume at 5:00 p.m., when prosecutors are expected to formally charge Gilda Susana with operations with resources of illicit origin and request informal preventive detention.
The case adds to the judicial process faced by his brother Emilio Lozoya, who is under house arrest for alleged acts of corruption related to Odebrecht and the purchase of Agronitrogenados.




