Anti-Corruption Secretariat Sanctions Pharma Corps Impromed & Total Farma

ByEmir Olivares Alonso

This article by Emir Olivares Alonso originally appeared in the October 13, 2025 edition of La Jornada, Mexico’s premier left wing daily newspaper.

Mexico City. The Anti-Corruption and Good Government Secretariat (SABG) reported that the sanctions imposed on the pharmaceutical companies Impromed and Total Farma were confirmed. These companies will be barred from entering into contracts with federal, state, and municipal government agencies for a year and a half.

The agency also announced that the firm Construcción Ecología y Medio Ambiente (Ecology and Environment Construction) was barred for three months.

In separate circulars published in this Monday’s edition of the Official Gazette of the Federation (DOF), it was detailed that in the Total Farma case, a judge of the Third Chamber of the Metropolitan Regional Third Chamber of the Federal Administrative Court of Justice (TFJA) issued a final ruling in the annulment trial 4709/24-17-03-6, filed by the company’s legal representatives.

The judge declared the “plain and simple nullity” of a resolution from the Responsibilities Area of ​​the Internal Control Body at the Mexican Social Security Institute, in which the company was imposed a one-and-a-half-year ban from entering into contracts with government agencies, in addition to a fine of 760,410 pesos.

It was reported that for Impromed, the magistrate of the First Chamber of the Seventh Metropolitan Regional Chamber of the TFJA issued a final ruling within the nullity lawsuit filed by the firm’s legal representatives, who were challenging the sanctions imposed.

With the magistrate’s decision, the sanctions imposed by the IMSS on this company were upheld, with a one-year and six-month ban from entering into agreements with public agencies at all three levels of government and a fine of 894,846 pesos.

In a third circular, the SABG indicated that the company Construcción Ecología y Medio Ambiente was sanctioned with a three-month ban. He added that if the company does not pay the imposed fine—a figure not disclosed in the document—”the disqualification will remain in effect until the corresponding payment is made.”