Top 10 richest criminals you must check out!
To make money fast, people sometimes forget their ethics and morals and choose an illegal path which makes them a criminal. Here’s a list of the Top 10 richest criminals that you must check out. Read below and find out about the fortunes they made illegally.
Illegal is always faster.
― Eoin Colfer
1. Pablo Emilio Escober ($30 billion)
Also known as the “King of Cocaine” became one of the richest people in the world till he turned 35. He brought in an estimated $420 million a week smuggling in almost 80% of the U.S. cocaine supply in the 1980s. He later died in a shootout in 1993.
2. Amado Carillo Fuentes ($25 billion)
Amado Carillo Fuentes worked with Pablo Escobar to smuggle cocaine and other drugs from Columbia into Mexico and the U.S. In 1997 he died from eight hours of extreme plastic surgery to change his appearance. The plastic surgeons were found dead later in concrete inside steel drums and had signs of torture. Apparently, that’s not surprising after such a drug lord dies.
3. Dawood Ibrahim ($6.7 billion)
Born in Mumbai, his father was head police constable but he became a name associated with the 1993 Mumbai Attack where a series of 12 bomb blasts left 257 dead and 1,400 injured. He is said to live in Pakistan but the Pakistani govt. denies.
4. Liu Han ($6.4 billion)
Liu Han a Chinese criminal convicted of murder, running a mafia-style gang, and many other charges who was executed in February 2015 is considered China’s richest criminal.
5. Joaquin Guzman Loera ($3 billion)
Joaquin Guzman Loera, also known as El Chapo and Chicago, branded him the first Public Enemy No. 1. He was accountable for 25% of drugs that entered the U.S. from Mexico.
6. Carlos Enrique Lehder Rivas ($2.7 billion)
This Medellin Cartel co-founder is also known as a titan of the cocaine industry and even had his own small neo-fascist party. He is still imprisoned in the U.S
7. Allen Stanford ($2 billion)
In 2012, Allen was found guilty of a $7-billion Ponzi scheme, money laundering, and obstruction of justice. He was sentenced to 110 years in prison.
“I didn’t do anything wrong. Will I apologize? No. Mark my words… I am going to walk out the doors of this place a free man.” Stanford told the BBC in 2016.
8. Susumu Ishii ($1.5 billion)
He began his life as part of the military but decided after living through the war he’d become a gangster. He was involved in the Inagawa-kai gang and was famous for real estate scams. But nobody knows the exact reason for his death.
9. Dennis Kozlowski ($600 million)
Ex-CEO of Tyco International, a New Jersey-based security and fire protection company, he was convicted of embezzlement. He was sentenced to 25 years in New York but was granted a conditional release in 2014.
10. Griselda Blanco ($500 million)
“The Godmother,” “Queen of Cocaine,” and “Black Widow”. She was murdered in 2012. Blanco was involved in Miami-based cocaine trafficking and was responsible for an estimated 200 murders related to the trade.
