Washington, Jan 11 (ANI): The United States Treasury Department has described Mexican drug lord Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman as "the world's most powerful drug trafficker".
The US Embassy in Mexico City issued a statement saying three of Guzman's alleged associates had been hit with sanctions under the Drug Kingpin Act, which prohibits people in the US from conducting businesses with them and freezes their US assets.
The two Mexican men and a Colombian allegedly aided Guzman's trafficking operations, Express.co.uk reports.
The statement quoted Adam J Szubin, director of the Treasury Department's Office of Foreign Assets Control, as saying the move "marks the fourth time in the past year that OFAC has targeted and exposed the support structures of the organisation led by Chapo Guzman, the world's most powerful drug trafficker".
US authorities said his Sinaloa Cartel has recently been expanding abroad, building international operations in Central and South America and the Pacific.
Guzman also reportedly got a boost from Mexican actress Kate Del Castillo, who said she believed in Guzman more than in the government.
Guzman, who escaped from a Mexican prison in 2001 in a laundry truck and has a seven million US dollar bounty on his head, has long been recognised as Mexico's most powerful drug baron. (ANI)
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