【Reynosa, Mex】Notaries Address Anti-Money Laundering Measures

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This article highlights new legal obligations for public notaries in Mexico to report certain transactions as part of strengthened anti-money laundering measures, following recent amendments to federal law.

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Notaries Address Anti-Money Laundering Measures

Public notaries are obligated to report vulnerable activities and transactions exceeding permitted thresholds to the Tax Administration System, in compliance with amendments to the Federal Law for the Prevention and Identification of Operations with Illicit Proceeds (LFPIORPI), which came into effect in July 2025.

This was announced within the framework of presentations given during the proceedings of the 360 Real Estate Forum held in Reynosa, reported notary César Hiram Mascorro García.

Among the vulnerable activities are “the buying and selling of real estate, the formation of new legal entities, assemblies, sale of shares, reduction or increase of capital,” he stated.

Notary Mascorro García recalled that the amendments to the Federal Law for the Prevention and Identification of Operations with Illicit Proceeds (LFPIORPI), also known as the “Anti-Money Laundering Law,” were authorized on July 17, 2025, and came into effect the following day.

He explained that the fundamental purpose of the presentations given at the 360 Real Estate Forum is to make participating public notaries from Reynosa and the Rio Grande Valley of Texas aware of real estate transactions and the recent amendments to the law.

“We are obligated subjects to report to the authorities any operation that exceeds the thresholds permitted by the law, we are obligated to give notices to the authority under the standards and norms that the anti-money laundering law obliges us to,” stated the public notary in an interview.

“There are more entities that have to give notices, like vehicle trafficking and the sale of jewelry, but in our case as public notaries, it is real estate trafficking, the buying or selling of real estate, and the formation of new companies; we are obligated to comply with the Anti-Money Laundering Law,” added Mascorro García.

“This forum also aims for the real estate brokers who sometimes participate with us to be involved in the obligations that we notaries have before the authority and to be aware of what documents, what they have to gather when they are going to carry out a purchase-sale operation or are going to form a new company,” he asserted.

He explained that at least in Reynosa, the buying and selling of real estate has been maintained, thank God, there have been good developments, there is now a federal government program called Vivienda Bienestar (Well-being Housing), so there is movement here in Reynosa for now, but also the formation of new legal entities, which is also a topic that involves us.

“It is not only in the sale of property but also in the formation of legal entities, in modification, in assemblies, in the sale of shares, the reduction or increase of capital; all those are vulnerable actions that oblige us to notify the authority,” he concluded.
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⏰ Published on: November 11, 2025