It has been revealed the extraditing the drug kingpin Joaquin ‘El Chapo’ Guzman to the U.S. could take in excess of a year.
A prosecutor said on Monday in a statement: “I could say as an estimate that it could be at least a year.”
Officials warned the process could last as long as four-to-six years depending on the lawyers of El Chapo.
Guzman’s lawyer, Juan Pablo Badillo, has vowed to appeal to the Supreme Court if necessary.
Mexican agents went to Guzman’s prison near Mexico City on Sunday to execute two arrest warrants for his extradition.
Guzman is now back in the same maximum-security prison he escaped from in July last year.
The drug lord was arrested in February 2014 but it only took him 17 months to escape.
Guzman was recaptured on Friday in a deadly military raid in Los Mochis, a northwestern seaside city in his home state of Sinaloa.
