A Mexican mayor allegedly faked her own kidnapping to embezzle $2.3 million in public funds, disguised as a ransom, according to the Attorney General's Office of the State of Mexico.

Nancy Nápoles, municipal president of Tenancingo, proclaimed her innocence in a video posted on social networks, calling the accusations “politicized.”

“In all these actions there is a political purpose to discredit me as a person, as a woman and as a public servant in my capacity as municipal president of the municipality of Tenancingo,” she stated in a video on social networks.

“I demand that the competent authorities proceed with their investigation to its ultimate consequences,” he added.

Naples belongs to the ruling Morena party of President Claudia Sheinbaum, who has made the fight against corruption one of the pillars of her government.

The prosecution indicated that it asked Nápoles to testify on July 9 for the “simulation of a kidnapping.”

According to investigations, at least 6 people participated in the setup, including the mayor, her husband and her brother-in-law, who obtained 2.3 million dollars from the ransom that, allegedly, came from the public treasury and would help cover an embezzlement in the municipality.

There are no arrest warrants against the official, unlike her husband and brother-in-law, who are fugitives.

According to the prosecution, armed men forced Napoles out of his car at gunpoint, basing the case on the testimony of three alleged kidnappers, now detained.

Authorities suggested that, during his captivity, his captors threatened to kill Nápoles and his family if they did not pay “40 million pesos in exchange for his freedom,” warning him that if they could not pay the ransom, he would have to “take resources from the local government.”

But a witness who saw the mayor being forced into a car thwarted the plan by alerting the police, who began a search and forced the mayor to abandon the mission.

The prosecution also released images that, they claim, show the false kidnapping.

A subsequent investigation revealed inconsistencies in her story, suggesting that the mayor's husband and brother-in-law planned the "false kidnapping" to claim public funds "already embezzled, thus creating a justification for the money."

Nápoles denied the accusation and stated that it was willing to cooperate with the authorities to clarify what happened and that the guilty be punished.

"I will continue to show my face because I do not owe anything to anyone, I would never act in the way that is mentioned. I am a woman of integrity and it will not be today or ever that that will change. It is incredible to see the reach that some people have to achieve a space of power," she stated.