Álvarez Cuevas is currently wanted by Interpol in 195 countries on various crimes including multiple accounts of racketeering, money laundering, and extortion.
[9] Their investigation suggested between 2013 and 2020, 1.2 billion Mexican pesos (US$60.6 million) were transferred from the Cruz Azul Cooperative into personal offshore bank accounts, namely in the United States and Spain.
[10] On 26 July 2020, the Attorney General of Mexico, Alejandro Gertz Manero, issued an arrest warrant for Álvarez and Garcés for ties with criminal organizations.
Arrest warrants were also issued for directors of the Cruz Azul Cooperative Miguel Eduardo Borrell, Mario Sánchez Álvarez, and Ángel Martín Junquera.
[13] After over four years as a fugitive from justice, Álvarez was arrested in Mexico City on 16 January 2025 and taken to the Penal del Altiplano federal maximum security prison.