He owned over two dozen planes, including a Learjet and six helicopters, that he used to smuggle the drugs between Colombia, Panama, and routes across the United States. (Although, it turned out Pablo misplaced his trust, seeing as Roberto later became a DEA informant.). In collaboration with Carlos Lehder, Escobar developed Normans Cay in the Bahamas as a trans-shipment point. If he were alive today he might bristle at being characterized as a drug dealer, but many of his bootlegging activities were the equivalent of underground narcotics traffic today. When he was alive, the drug lord ran one of the most notorious and violent drug cartels in world history, The Medelln Drug Cartel. The drug fortunes may be inestimable, but in Bogota they say Colombian godfather Pablo Escobar, a one-time drug courier still in his 30s, must be worth at least $2 billion, wrote Associated Press columnist Charles J. Hanley in 1985. Escobar himself already had a net worth of $30 billion and was one of the ten richest people on earth. Carlos Lehder, pictured in 1987, co-founded the Medellin Cartel with Escobar. According to XPAT Nation, they lived a middle-class life type in Bueno Aires. -Thomas Sowell, "You stop being an asshole when it sucks to be you." With this amount of money attributed to his name and his cartel, he made Forbes annual list ofWorlds Richest People seven years in a row. She was 15 years old at that time. But during his lifetime he was possibly the most successful drug lord of them all. . Bowden described Escobar as a runner, not a fighter. He also noted just how elusive both Colombian and U.S. officials were about exactly who was present on the raid, either on the scene or in the shadows, and more importantly how the autopsy of Escobars body raised questions. In all, Escobar is thought to be responsible for some 4,000 deaths. Pablo Escobar's Net Worth The Drug Lord Could Have Been The Richest Man Alive By Katie Serena Published January 24, 2018 Updated June 8, 2018 If he was alive and still at work today, Pablo Escobar's net worth would be more than $100 billion, making him the richest person on earth. Maria was born in 1961 and was married to Pablo for 17 years. Absolutely. It remains a mystery as to who shot and killed him, as his relatives believe that killed himself using a gun. Submit a correction suggestion and help us fix it! In 1989 Forbes declared him as the 7th richest person in the world with a "book value" net worth of $9 billion dollars. "Every time I sat in the dining room and looked towards the car park, I saw a man entering the place and disappearing," he said. Despite his criminal activities, Escobar was seen by many as a Robin Hood figure, providing money and resources to the poor in Colombia. 3. After he was arrested in 1991, Escobar was housed in a prison of his own design, nicknamed the Cathedral, where he continued to oversee the Medelln Cartel. We all know Pablo Escobar was one of the most successful criminals in history, but the extent of his influence and power still remains unknown. At its peak when the Medelln Cartel pushed 15 tons of cocaine daily to the United States worth over half a billion dollars, Escobar and his brother bought rubber bands worth $1000 every week to wrap the cash bundles. Ok, now there will not be an agreement here but to me: in 1987 he had been trafficking for a while, by 1991 he was on the run. In The Accountants Story, Roberto explains that, unsurprisingly, a lot of Pablos money went to public officials. He made the list of of world's billionaires every year for the next seven years. He was also entitled to a diplomatic visa, which he used to take trips with his family to the United States. Pablo Escobar was born on 1 December 1949, in Rionegro, Columbia, and is widely recognized as having been a major crime figure in Latin America as a cocaine trafficker and narco-terrorist, most famous for his illegal drug deals. Nicols Escobar told Colombian TV channel Red+ Noticias he had also found a typewriter, satellite phones, gold pen, a camera and a film roll yet to be developed. But of course, a man with this much money had to have someone who could keep up with all its movements.
