Adolfo Autrey Da Costa is one of the many members of the Autrey Maza family, led by his uncle, Xavier Autrey Maza, who played an important role in Mexican business, particularly in the distribution of medicines and the satellite sector. Today, the family controls Grupo Acerero del Norte, one of the main shareholders of Altos Hornos de México.
However, over the last few years, Adolfo Autrey Da Costa, the son of one of Xavier Autrey’s brothers, has been working against his family. In 2014, when Xavier was arriving at his ranch in Tepeji del Río with “his wife, two of his granddaughters, and their nanny, they were intercepted by two vehicles,” from which more than 180 shots were fired. Fortunately, everyone survived thanks to the armour plating on their vehicle. From then on, they went into self-imposed exile in the United States, while investigations and legal proceedings were initiated to find the culprits. The culprit, according to the investigations, was none other than his nephew, Adolfo Autrey Da Costa.
What whas young Adolfo’s goal? To force his uncle Xavier to give his father Adolfo more company shares than he was entitled to. When Xavier refused to give in, he had him killed, which is why Xavier filed a lawsuit. In 2019, the Public Prosecutor’s Office first classified the nephew as a suspect and later as a posible guilty person [Preliminary Investigation PGR/SEIDO/JEIDMS/890/2014], although he barely managed to avoid the arrest warrant through legal maneuvers.