The Mexican Attorney General's Office (FGR) is seeking to initiate a criminal process against five former municipal officials of Aguascalientes for diverting resources between 2019 and 2021. ^[1] Eugenio Javier Maiz Domene, the owner of Next Energy, is currently detained in the state prison of Aguascalientes on suspicion of fraud. ^[2] Audits confirmed that the payments were made from 2019 until December 31, 2021, even though the works had not started and the service was never provided. ^[3] Next Energy returned a total of 154.1 million pesos to the municipal coffers, including VAT, but the municipality failed to cancel the original expense or document the destination of the returned funds. ^[4] The investigation relates to a contract worth more than 848 million pesos for the Municipal Energy Efficiency Program, which was signed on March 28, 2019, under the administration of former mayor María Teresa Jiménez. ^[5] Maiz Domene accused the officials of engaging in corruption to maintain his imprisonment by creating fabricated case files in a single week. ^[6] On August 3, 2026, Maiz Domene filed a formal complaint with the Attorney General's Office (Fiscalía General de la República) against federal judges and officials from Aguascalientes. ^[7] The complaint alleges that the judicial and administrative officials acted to keep Maiz Domene detained through the manipulation of legal documents. ^[8]