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One year ago, in March 2025, Mexican authorities seized the Challenge Procyon tanker in Tampico, exposing an extensive fuel-smuggling network (also known as huachicol fiscal) that allegedly operated under the protection of senior Navy officials. Documents obtained by MCCI offer a measure of the scale of the losses: a single fuel-smuggling company that authorities link to the Jalisco New Generation Cartel evaded 29 billion pesos in taxes, an amount equivalent to four times the losses in La Estafa Maestra and twice the losses in the Segalmex scandal.