El Chapo's politician 'lover' faces criminal investigation

15 June 2016 - 10:07 By ©The Daily Telegraph

A Mexican politician has been stripped of her parliamentary immunity from prosecution amid accusations that she met Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman Loera for a New Year's Eve tryst while the drug cartel boss was on the run after his sensational jailbreak in July.Lucero Sanchez Lopez, a 27-year-old member of the Sinaloa state assembly, has been accused by public prosecutors of seeing in 2016 by spending the night with the world's most wanted man before he was finally recaptured by Mexican authorities on January 8. It is also alleged that she used false documents to visit the drug lord in prison before his escape.On Monday, members of Mexico's national congress voted by 414 to 37 to strip Sanchez Lopez of her protection from being put on trial as prosecutors decide what charges to bring against her.  Judge in Mexico seeks 'El Chapo' extraditon to USHours before Mexican authorities transferred drug lord Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman to a prison in Ciudad Juarez, a federal judge ruled he should be extradited to the United States, Guzman's lawyer said Sunday.King Midas, El Chapo's alleged money launderer, capturedAuthorities have captured a man identified as the chief financial operator for drugs kingpin Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman. The man, they say, laundered more than $4-billion for the big boss in the past decade.'El Chapo's taco order led police to his door'A Mexican journalist has obtained what he claims is the first photo of Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman, inside his cell in the Altiplano prison.She was questioned earlier in the year about her relationship with Guzman, and has been forced to deny allegations in the media that the Sinaloa Cartel capo is the father of her two children.Although Sanchez Lopez denies having any relationship with Guzman, the authorities have released a photograph they believe proves that the young politician went to see him in the maximum-security Altiplano jail using a false identity...

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