Among the 5 richest drug dealers in history, Pablo Escobar appears, which was once said to be the third richest man in the world. His fortune was close to 30 billion dollars and was stored in bags of fique and then buried in the dozens of farms he had throughout Colombia. It is for this reason, that there are still many who look for Escobar's guacas and novels are written about this fact. Just as they were also billionaires, fortune turned their backs on them at the end of their days, when they were extradited or killed by military forces or by their enemies.
With their money, many of them tried to buy the judges to favor them in a judicial decision. Colombian justice has been flexible by some members who allow the influence of money to reach justice. In the article on the decay of justice in those extradited in terms of narcos there is an analysis of what has happened in recent years.
Today, we wanted to expose the 5 richest drug dealers in the history of the contemporary world.
Pablo Escobar - Colombia
Pablo Escobar was one of the drug traffickers who imposed an order of terror in Colombia. His fortune was such that he once offered $ 400 for the person who killed a policeman. Countless sicarios undertook a crusade to kill and kill the men of the public force only to collect the reward. His fortune, according to Forbes, amounted to around 30,000 million dollars.
He was the head of the Medellín cartel, where he controlled cocaine trafficking to the United States. He was a pioneer in the construction of laboratories and in creating routes to get the drug to the North American country. A legend tells that he had so much money that he managed to burn 2 million dollars just so that his daughter would not die of cold.
Amado Carrillo Fuentes – México
This is one of the drug traffickers who died not by a gunshot or in jail. His death was due to a poorly practiced cosmetic surgery. He is known as The Lord of the Skies, because he managed to buy a flotilla of Boing 727 aircraft to transport drugs to the United States and different countries in Europe. It is said that his fortune reached 25 billion dollars. To this we must add, according to the men who accompanied him, who managed to wash more than 200 million dollars from the Medellín cartel.
Dawood Ibrahim Kaskar - India
This drug trafficker and terrorist is still alive. Its fortune ascends according to the Forbes magazine to a little more than 6.7 million dollars, although some affirm that it has a little more than 7 million dollars. Despite being a drug trafficker, most of their income is for the extortion charge. He is the head of organized crime for the cruelest Asian bands. His life, since childhood, has been in the midst of violence. Currently, he is one of the most wanted men by Interpol.
The Ocho brothers - Colombia
Jorge, Juan David and Fabio Ochoa are three brothers who managed to have each a fortune of 6000 million dollars. His rise went hand in hand with Pablo Escobar, however, they are two different clans. These three men were responsible for creating alternate routes to transport drugs to Europe and the United States in the 70s and 80s
Khun Sa - Mianmar
This is one of the drug traffickers who never stepped into a prison and did not kill him with a bullet. He is currently considered one of the most powerful drug traffickers in the world, despite his death in 2002. Many consider him more powerful than Pablo Escobar, not because of his fortune but because of the number of men he came to have. to protect him He managed to create his own army. He was known worldwide as the King of Opium. His fortune was hovering around 5 billion dollars. This is the same amount that the Colombian Gonzalo Rodríguez Gacha had.
