The Rocha Moya government is concealing all audits of its administration.

Over five years of government, most departments within the Sinaloa state administration, under the now-suspended Governor Rubén Rocha Moya, failed to publicly release audit reports conducted on the National Transparency Platform (PNT), despite this being a legal obligation. A review of the PNT reveals that state departments such as the Ministries of Security, Finance, Welfare, Health, Women's Affairs, Fisheries, and even Rocha Moya's own Ministry of Government, have not published any results from internal or external audits. For each of the four quarters of every year, the information provided by these ministries indicates that no internal or external audits were conducted. During Rubén Rocha Moya's administration, no results were published on the PNT. "No internal or external audits were conducted during this period. For this reason, the sections from the criterion 'Audited period(s)' to the criterion 'Hyperlink to the annual audit program' are without information." "During the period reported, this ministry did not generate information of public interest." The review found that only the Ministries of Tourism, Public Works, and Agriculture uploaded audit results from the previous year to the platform. The General Law on Transparency and Access to Public Information stipulates that obligated entities, including state governments, must make public information available to the population and keep it updated, including audit reports. Article 19, section XI of this law states that state governments, as obligated entities, must publish and keep updated information related to transparency obligations, including relevant files or links on the National Transparency Platform. Approximately two weeks ago, the United States government requested the arrest and extradition of the suspended Governor of Sinaloa, Rubén Rocha Moya, and nine state officials, due to alleged ties to drug trafficking and arms trafficking. The Transparency and Accountability section of the state government only provides a brief summary report of the Annual Audit, Visits, and Inspections Program from the State Auditor's Office of Sinaloa (ASE), consisting of only 20 pages. However, this report highlights that the State Auditor's Office itself considers the lack of program budget information on the National Transparency Platform as a "criterion for identifying areas of risk." "Criteria for identifying areas of risk. The official transparency platform lacked program budget information." The Sinaloa State Ministry of Security, in addition to not publicly releasing copies of audits on the PNT, also does not provide reports on contracts for services or on official advertising expenses. Last year and in the first part of 2026, both the Ministry of Government and the Ministry of Finance did not upload any information on contracts for works, goods, and services. The former Secretaries of Security and Finance, Gerardo Mérida and Enrique Alfonso Díaz Vega, respectively, are accused by the United States Department of Justice of alleged ties to Los Chapitos of the Sinaloa Cartel. A review of the National Transparency Platform revealed that the Sinaloa State Attorney General's Office has also not made any audits public in the past five years. "It is reported that the substantive information for the criteria is without information because this institution did not have audit results during this period," the National Transparency Platform states. In addition, last year, in the section on the contracting of services, the local Attorney General's Office did not upload any information on financial assessments and expenses for official advertising. The former Deputy Attorney General of the State, Dámaso Castro Saavedra, is accused by the United States of alleged ties to organized crime. On May 5th, he requested a leave of absence without pay to address any institutional requirements made to him through legal channels. The National Transparency Platform is an instrument that unifies and facilitates access to public information from all levels of government and all authorities, entities, or organizations of the Legislative, Executive, and Judicial branches, as well as political parties and unions. It is noted that 6,000 entities throughout the national territory are obligated to provide public information related to contracts, salaries, public procurement, allocated budgets, procedures, lists of social programs, as well as lists of public servants and sanctioned companies. The former Federal Institute for Access to Information and Data Protection (Ifai) – which later became the National Institute for Transparency, Access to Information, and Protection of Personal Data (Inai) – was the organization responsible for creating and managing the PNT. After the Inai was dissolved in March 2025 – an organization that former President Andrés Manuel López Obrador accused of being "a bureaucratic apparatus that serves no purpose" – the National Transparency Platform began to be operated by the Anti-Corruption and Good Governance Secretariat.