Now, let's take a look at the 10 richest drug lords of all time.
- Al Capone: $1.47 Billion.
- Griselda Blanco: $2.26 Billion.
- El Chapo: $3 Billion.
- Carlos Lehder: $3.05 Billion.
- The Orejuela Bros: $3.39 Billion.
- (tied) Jose Gonzalo Rodriguez Gacha: $5.65 Billion.
- (tied) Khun Sa: $5.65 Billion.
After the arrest of Joaquín "El Chapo" Guzmán, the cartel is now headed by Ismael Zambada García (aka El Mayo) and Guzmán's sons, Alfredo Guzmán Salazar, Ovidio Guzmán López and Ivan Archivaldo Guzmán Salazar. As of 2020, the Sinaloa Cartel remains Mexico's most dominant drug cartel.
The illegal drug trade in Colombia has, since the 1970s, centered successively on four major drug trafficking cartels: Medellin, Cali, Norte del Valle, and North Coast, as well as several bandas criminales, or BACRIMs.
At one time the most wanted man on the planet, the infamous drug lord Pablo Escobar buried huge amounts of his estimated $50 billion fortune all over Colombia. The vast majority of this money has never been recovered.
There was a lump sum supposedly set aside to take care of Escobar's family, but that money apparently never reached its intended hands. Some of the liquid assets were ultimately seized by the law, but the hard assets and hidden cash remain largely unaccounted for.
Judy Moncada (née Mendoza) was a Colombian former drug trafficker and a member of the Los Pepes paramilitary organization. She fled Colombia in 1993, and lives in the United States as part of a witness protection program.
El Chapo: $3 BillionThis is probably an overestimation, but even if El Chapo's net worth is $2.3 billion, he still would be the 10th richest drug lord of all time.
New York|El Chapo Earned $12,666,181,704, Prosecutors Say.
2. What happened to the money after Pablo Escobar's death? It would probably not surprise you when we tell you that a large portion of Don Pablo's money went to the Colombian government. They also forced Escobar's family to sign over whatever liquid assets were left behind by the government.
By the mid-1990s, the Cali Cartel's international drug trafficking empire was
a $7 billion a year criminal enterprise.
Cali Cartel.
| Founded | Cali, Valle del Cauca, Colombia |
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| Leader(s) | Gilberto Rodríguez Orejuela Miguel Rodríguez Orejuela José Santacruz Londoño Hélmer Herrera Buitrago |
The 1992 Cali wedding bombing occurred on 24 December 1992 when Pablo Escobar and the Medellin Cartel bombed the wedding of Cali Cartel boss Gilberto Rodriguez Orejuela's daughter in the city of Cali, Colombia.
Part of the tourist attraction at Napoles would be Escobar's collection of vintage Ford and Porsche cars. One is thought to have been used by notorious gangsters Bonnie and Clyde and now stands rusted and burned out in a massive garage, after revenge by a rival drug cartel.
Some estimates put the total around 3,500 killed during the height of the cartel's activities, including over 500 police officers in Medellín, but the entire list is impossible to assemble, due to the limitation of the judiciary power in Colombia.
Escobar himself was not so lucky: Colombian law enforcement finally caught up to the fugitive Escobar on December 2, 1993, in a middle-class neighborhood in Medellin. A firefight ensued and, as Escobar tried to escape across a series of rooftops, he and his bodyguard were shot and killed.
K Foundation Inc. K Foundation Burn a Million Quid was a performance art action on 23 August 1994 in which the K Foundation (an art duo consisting of Bill Drummond and Jimmy Cauty) burned cash in the amount of one million pounds sterling in a disused boathouse on the Ardfin Estate on the Scottish island of Jura.
Guzman was sentenced by a federal court in New York to life in prison plus 30 years, and is now locked up in a maximum-security prison in Florence, Colorado.
Born Pablo Emilio Escobar Gaviria in Medellin, Colombia, to middle-class parents. He did not drink much besides beer and did not smoke cigarettes, although he developed a liking for the strong Colombian cannabis, a habit he indulged until his death.
Arguably the richest human to have ever lived, Mansa Musa ruled over the Mali empire in the 14th Century.
Joaquín "El Chapo" Guzmán
Richest People in Colombia
- Luis Carlos Sarmiento. $12.6 Billion. Luis Carlos Sarmiento net worth: Luis Carlos Sarmiento is the richest person in Colombia with a net worth of $12.6 billion.
- Jaime Gilinski Bacal. $3.2 Billion.
- Carlos Ardila Lülle. $2.6 Billion.
- Woods Staton. $1.7 Billion.
Today, it would be more than double that, making him the richest person in the world (and surpassing Bill Gates and Jeff Bezos, the actual richest people in the world, by almost $20 billion.) Now that you know Pablo Escobar's net worth, check out these Pablo Escobar facts.
His base salary of $81,840 has remained unchanged since 1998. However, on top of his salary, additional compensation brings his total income to $1,681,840. Broken down, this works out as $140,153 per month, $32,343, a week, $4,608 per day, $192 per hour, or $3.20 per minute.
Mansa Musa Net Worth
| Net Worth: | $400 Billion |
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| Gender: | Male |
| Last Updated: | 2021 |
Richest people in the world: Warren Buffett is now worth $100 billion. Warren Buffett, CEO of Berkshire Hathaway, stretched his net worth to $100 billion on Thursday, making him the sixth richest person in the world.
