Gloria Trevi during a press conference in Mexico City, in a file image.Getty Images
The Attorney General’s Office (FGR) announced on Tuesday that it is calling as witnesses the singer Gloria Trevi and her husband Armando Ismael Gómez Martínez, accused of tax fraud and money laundering, according to information obtained by the newspaper Reforma. The Financial Intelligence Unit (UIF) filed a complaint against the couple in September 2021. Now Trevi and Gómez must appear in court on October 23, although they can do so via video conference since they live together in the United States.
The UIF’s focus is on one of the companies run by the couple, Fuego con Fuego Representaciones SA, where a deposit of 7 million pesos was allegedly made, of which income tax was never declared, according to sources close to the Reforma case are quoted. The Treasury Department has been investigating a network of the couple’s companies for years. In 2021, the authority accused them of evading the amount of 400 million pesos and of setting up a money laundering network in which three other people were also involved.
Facing the 2021 allegation, the couple’s lawyer explained that both declared their taxes in the United States. At that time, the singer also uploaded a video to Tik Tok in which she denied all allegations against her and her husband. Now the FGR has asked her to testify before the public prosecutor’s office in order to defend herself against the allegations.
Gloria Trevi, 55 years old, has a cruel past with the justice system. She and her ex-partner, producer Sergio Andrade, were arrested in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, in 2000 on a Mexican court order charging them with kidnapping, rape and corruption of minors. They spent three years in a Brazilian prison before accepting extradition to Mexico. Trevi was acquitted in 2004 and Andrade in 2007.
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