Mexican Court Revokes Judge's Suspensions Favoring Pryse Security Firm

Judge Gabriel Regis López, a candidate for Mexico’s Supreme Court of Justice, had granted two definitive suspensions that temporarily halted the execution of administrative disqualifications against Grupo de Seguridad Privada Pryse de México. Pryse, a private security contractor, holds 325 federal contracts worth more than 14.467 billion pesos between 2017 and 2026.

The 17th Collegiate Tribunal in Administrative Matters of the First Circuit unanimously revoked those suspensions, ruling that they violated mandatory Supreme Court jurisprudence (2a./J.157/2010), which requires denial of suspensions that would prevent the execution of temporary disqualifications in public procurement. The court emphasized that allowing such measures would breach constitutional principles of efficiency, transparency and honesty in the use of public resources. The revocation also nullified earlier circulars issued by the Secretaría Anticorrupción y Buen Gobierno and the IMSS internal control office that had temporarily suspended the sanctions while the suspensions were in force.