Government Says El Chapo Guzman Paid a Bundle for His Escape from Mexican Jail Christopher Woody - Business Insider
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Here's how much El Chapo's prison escape cost the infamous drug lord (Business Insider)

The Mexican attorney general released more details from the government's investigation of Sinaloa drug lord Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman's high-profile prison escape in July, though she refrained from divulging specifics.

"The exact amount of how much [El Chapo] spent [to escape] we have not documented totally," Arely Gomez Gonzalez, Mexico's attorney general, told Mexican newspaper Milenio in an interview. "But we do know that it was a very high amount of money."

Since Guzman's escape from a high-security prison in central Mexico in July, through a mile-long tunnel from his prison cell to an exit hidden by a partially constructed house, a variety of lurid details have emerged.

Though Gomez Gonzalez did not reveal specifics about the costs of the breakout, previous reports indicate that some aspects of it cost the notorious kingpin well over $100,000, and it is believed that he paid $3 million for a jailbreak in 2001.

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