Weinberg family linked to Genaro García Luna money laundering scheme

Mexico’s Financial Intelligence Unit (UIF) has detailed an extensive money laundering and embezzlement scheme linked to former Security Secretary Genaro García Luna and the Weinberg business group. According to Omar Reyes Colmenares, head of the UIF, the network operated between 2008 and 2018, involving over 44 companies used to divert public funds through overpriced government contracts and shell companies.

The Weinberg family—including Mauricio Samuel Weinberg López, Sylvia Danna Pinto, and Jonathan Alexis Weinberg Pinto—is identified as a central part of this network. The UIF alleges the group fulfilled three simultaneous roles: disguising bribes as ordinary commercial payments, simulating the legitimacy of contracts, and maximizing the volume of extracted public resources. The total amount of diverted resources is estimated at approximately 528 million pesos and 727.9 million dollars.

Investigations indicate that funds were often moved to the United States via Caribbean countries, such as Barbados. Recently, the Mexican government reported the recovery of 5.8 million dollars following the liquidation of 12 properties in the United States belonging to the Weinberg family.