Kate is under investigation for money laundering: PGR

Mexico's Attorney General says there are indications that Kate del Castillo received financial resources from drug lord Joaquín "El Chapo" Guzmán, leader of the Sinaloa Cartel, for her tequila company Honor del Castillo.

She explained that the Mexican actress has been called to testify and that the Financial Intelligence Unit of Mexico's Ministry of Finance, in coordination with the Attorney General's Office (PGR), are investigating her finances.

Since 2015, when Del Castillo started meeting with Guzmán's lawyers, the PGR started investigating the actress for operations with resources of illegal origin and money laundering. For this purpose, Mexico is exchanging information with the U.S. government, because her tequila company is registered in Delaware.

In an interview with EL UNIVERSAL, the Attorney General said that since last year it was agreed with Mexico's President that if "El Chapo" was recaptured, he would be extradited to the United States as soon as possible once the due legal process was completed.

She also confirmed that the drug kingpin spent New Year's Eve with Lucero Guadalupe Sánchez, a member of the National Action Party (PAN) and representative of the 16th. district of Cosalá, Sinaloa, also under investigation because she allegedly used a false ID to visit Guzmán at El Altiplano prison.

Gómez explained that so far they don't have "legal certainty" a crime was committed. She added that the PGR is not investigating Sean Penn, neither Oliver Stone who allegedly accompanied Del Castillo in the meeting she arranged for Penn to interview Guzmán on October 2. The interview was published by Rolling Stone magazine on Jan. 9, a day after the fugitive Guzmán was recaptured.