Editor's Note
This editor’s note highlights the key facts and market implications behind “The Vast Business Network of Gutiérrez Müller”, with emphasis on sourcing, product fit, fabrication, logistics, or buyer impact.
In six years, Rodrigo Gutiérrez Müller, brother-in-law of former president Andrés Manuel López Obrador, created six companies. The information comes from the notarial records existing in the Public Registry of Commerce of Guanajuato, Jalisco, and Mexico City.
The companies founded by Gutiérrez Müller span sectors as diverse as money transfer and remittance, agribusiness, extraction and export of construction materials and quartz, and hydrocarbon distribution.
Together, they declared a minimum share capital of 11.4 million pesos, of which 2.2 million were contributed directly by Gutiérrez Müller.
Companies and Partners in Hydrocarbons and Agribusiness
Following the conclusion of his brother-in-law López Obrador's administration, Rodrigo Gutiérrez Müller registered a new company. Last September, he appeared at the offices of notary Carlos Luviano Montelongo in Zapopan and requested the registration of Keter Energy S.A. de C.V., a firm dedicated to the acquisition, purchase, sale, import, export, commission, distribution, marketing, storage, and transportation of oil, gasoline, gas, diesel, fuels, fuel additives, lubricants, and, in general, all kinds of hydrocarbons and derived residues in Mexico and abroad.
Gutiérrez Müller partnered equally with Arnulfo Espinoza Tolentino, who was municipal president of Ixhuatlán de Madero, Veracruz, between 2022 and 2025; Mario Martínez Sánchez; Mario Alberto Valderrábano Estévez; Óscar Javier Rodríguez Rodríguez; and Jorge Ferrer López.
Also in agribusiness, in July 2020, before notary Luis Valdez Anguiano (Notary 46 of Guadalajara), Gutiérrez Müller together with 14 other partners established the company Conectividad Logística Internacional Portuaria Colomo Campos S.A. de C.V., with its address in the city of Manzanillo, Colima. It would be dedicated to "exporting and distributing all kinds of merchandise, especially those related to livestock, agricultural, cattle, or forestry exploitation."
The partners, whose names coincide with figures from public life in the region, include Francisco Hueso Alcaraz, president of the Colima State Agricultural Council; Rodrigo Vera Mendoza, union leader of transporters in Colima; Juan Carlos Hueso Palacio, leader of construction workers in Jalisco; and J. Jesús Nolasco Rodríguez, a Jalisco real estate developer. However, tax IDs (RFC) do not appear in the records. About a dozen other people are also associated, but there is no greater public reference for them.
Quartz Companies
The brother-in-law of López Obrador also started two firms to market quartz in conjunction with Antonio Morales Díaz, now mayor of Tapalpa, Jalisco. The companies are called Quartz Team International México S.A. de C.V. (created in March 2020) and Quartz Stone S.R.L. de C.V. (created in July 2021). Both commercialize quartz.
Transfer Companies and Anti-Money Laundering Accusations
In 2021, Gutiérrez Müller formalized Envíos del Bienestar S.A. de C.V. and Pagos del Bienestar S.A. de C.V. in Mexico, and his partners in the United States registered the mirror company Pagos del Bienestar LLC. The investors continued with the same line of business, although now without his involvement, according to public records.
The structure around the brother-in-law added three more companies dedicated to money transfers and "businesses of all kinds," practically with the same partners with whom Gutiérrez Müller had started the Bienestar ventures.
On April 30, in the offices of notary Antonio Rodríguez Laura Gutiérrez in Jalisco, Mexus Payment S.A. de C.V. was registered. It was the same date and before the same notary as Pagos del Bienestar. It was established with the objective of offering "business support services (…) related to the technology sector," as well as "consulting in payment processing, payment administration and own and third-party services; management in the provision of services and payment processing."
For their part, the partners of López Obrador's brother-in-law constituted four companies similar in names or lines of business to his. For example, Pagos del Bienestar LLC and Transfiriendo el Bienestar LLC, in the United States; Transferencias del Bienestar S.A. de C.V. and Mexus Payment S.A. de C.V., in Mexico. The objective was the same: to move money between the two countries. The company structure involves 46 people, between partners and notaries.
On March 26 of this year, it was revealed that Gutiérrez Müller founded the firms Envíos del Bienestar and Pagos del Bienestar. Among his partners are anti-money laundering expert officials and the names of two people accused of money laundering in the United States.
In an atypical joint statement, the Ministry of Finance and the Financial Intelligence Unit stated that, in a few days and on a weekend, they conducted an analysis of the companies of the former president’s brother-in-law and found nothing irregular.
No public records were found indicating that any of the companies in this network have obtained contracts with governments.
Source: Read the original article | Published: April 19, 2026