Lucero Guadalupe Sánchez to be questioned about “El Chapo”

Lucero Guadalupe Sánchez, a state lawmaker from Joaquín "El Chapo" Guzmán's home of Sinaloa, has been brought in to speak to investigators about her relationship with the recently recaptured drug lord, Mexico's attorney general's office said late Wednesday.

Federal police were transporting Sánchez to Mexico City for questioning regarding an investigation into her alleged use of fraudulent documents to visit Guzmán on April 14, 2015 in the maximum security prison he would escape from a couple of months later.

The lawmaker has not been charged with any crime, but she resigned her position with the opposition National Action Party on Wednesday.

At a press conference, the legislator denying knowing the drug kingpin and added that the accusations against her are not true.

“I am not his girlfriend, neither am I interested in meeting this person, especially because he is involved with organized crime,” she added.

On January 11, 2014 her sister María Carolina Sánchez was murdered and two weeks later her ex husband Rubén Chávez Chaidez.

On Monday, EL UNIVERSAL published an interview with Attorney General Arely Gómez in which she said the government believed Sánchez spent New Year's Eve with Guzmán in Sinaloa.

Guzmán, of the Sinaloa cartel, was captured on January 8 after his second escape from the maximum-security prison El Altiplano.

(With information from AP)