Alejandro Gertz Manero

In this Spanish name, the first or paternal surname is Gertz and the second or maternal family name is Manero.

Alejandro Gertz Manero (born 31 October 1939) is a Mexican lawyer and Attorney General of Mexico. He served as Secretary of Public Security during part of Vicente Fox's government. From 2009 to 2012 he served as Deputy of the LXI Legislature of the Mexican Congress representing the State of Mexico.^[1]

Alejandro Gertz Manero
Gertz Manero in 2025
Attorney General of Mexico
Incumbent
Assumed office 18 January 2019
Nominated by	Andrés Manuel López Obrador
Preceded by	Office established
1st Secretary of Public Security
In office 1 December 2000 – 3 June 2004
President	Vicente Fox
Preceded by	Office established
Succeeded by	Ramón Martín Huerta
Personal details
Born	(1939-10-31) 31 October 1939 (age 85) Mexico City, Mexico
Education	Escuela Libre de Derecho (LLB) National Autonomous University of Mexico (PhD)
Profession	Lawyer and politician

Controversies

Gertz Manero meets with U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas at FGR Headquarters in Mexico City in June 2021.

• In 2022 he was accused of abusing his position as Federal Prosecutor for a personal vendetta, illegally persecuting and jailing Alejandra Cuevas and Laura Moran for the death of his brother Federico Gertz in 2015.^[2]

• He was accused of influence trafficking and criminal association by the former Counsel to the President, Julio Scherer Ibarra.^[3]
• He owns several real estate properties in Madrid, Ibiza, Paris, New York, and Los Angeles, and bought 122 luxury vehicles.^[4]
• In 2021 he was admitted to the Mexican National Researchers System by a special committee, after having tried unsuccessfully for 11 years due to insufficient scientific output.^[5] Writer Guillermo Sheridan showed evidence of plagiarism in a biography of Guillermo Prieto published by Gertz Manero, which was also reported by a group of 77 researchers.^[6][7]
• When he was Public Safety Secretary in the government of Vicente Fox, Gertz Manero was detained by DEA and ATF when he landed in New York in an official Mexican government plane, carrying a false passport and $50,000 dlls in cash. In 2022 the USA government opened another investigation on him.^[8]