Sean Penn under probe for meeting drug baron

Actor had secretly interviewed Mexican fugitive El Chapo

Actor Sean Penn is under investigation for secretly interviewing the Mexican drug lord Joaquín ‘El Chapo’ Guzmán Loera, while he was evading authorities following an escape from a Mexican prison, reported IANS.

The Rolling Stone magazine published the interview with Guzman which Oscar-winning Penn conducted.

In an article posted on the magazine’s website, Penn, 55, has posted details as to how he spent months organising an interview with one of the most wanted men in the world.



Since he had been in contact with Guzman for several months, authorities are presumably interested to find out why the actor did not earlier share any information on the wanted man.

At his hideouts in the impenetrable hills of western Mexico, Guzmán told the Hollywood star about his drugs business, rags-to-riches life story and how he hired European engineers to help him to slip out of the prison.



According to The Guardian, Mexican authorities claim they monitored Penn’s movements after they found out about his meeting with Guzmán in October and that helped lead them to a ranch where El Chapo was staying.

In July, Guzmán, the head of the Sinaloa drug cartel, escaped the Altiplano-I federal penitentiary using a secret tunnel. His escape prompted an international manhunt, which ended this week when he was recaptured.

Published in The Express Tribune, January 12^th, 2016.

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