Reading like a taut man-hunt narrative thriller, seven more suspects are being examined for their assistance in Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman’s mysterious escape from a maximum security prison in Mexico according to an Aljazeera America report.

A Mexican official, who remained anonymous, did not elaborate on those arrested and whether their roles were tied to the Mexican government. Three-dozen others are being questioned as accomplices.

The drug kingpin questionably wiggled out of Altiplano Prison, Mexico’s air-tight prison facility through a bored hole in his shower cell leading to a ventilated shaft underground.

Government officials thus determined that their was inside collusion and that Guzman’s evacuation team must have got their hands on the building’s floor plans.

Officials evaded the prison’s general manager and vetted more than 30 prison personnel.

The United States filed an extradition request for Guzman on June 25th, roughly 2 1/2 weeks before his jailbreak. “El Chapo” is charged with conspiracy to import and distribute cocaine.

The office of Attorney General Arely Gomez issued a statement late Thursday confirming that the United States filed an extradition request for Guzman on June 25, about 2 1/2 weeks before he escaped.

Guzman faces U.S. charges of conspiracy to import and distribute cocaine.

Mexico’s Attorney General Arely Gomez has processed the request with its judicial system, however, extradition proceedings can span for years. Mexico’s former Attorney General Jesus Murillo Karam voiced earlier that Guzman wouldn’t be extradited until justice has been served in Mexico. He said that Guzman won’t serve trial in the United States until “about 300 or 400 years.”

The office said Gomez had issued instructions to review the request and submit it to courts for consideration. The appeals process can stretch out extradition proceedings for years.

It’s no fringe hypothesis in Mexico that Guzman was aided by their government, which gave his people the inside job they needed.

Mexico’s president, Enrique Pena Nieto, returning from France on an official visit, made the statement that Guzman’s flight has caused “indignation, frustration, anger in broad sectors of society.”

But asked why no high profile authority has been indicted, Pena said that trying to solve the issue with rage will lead to nowhere.

“The only way to answer this insult without doubt is by recapturing this criminal,” he said.