Hello and welcome back to most amazing top 10!
I am Rebecca Felgate and today we are talking about the top 10 Richest Criminals of All
Time.
While it seems pretty clear that crime pays, it is a short term gain…..should you be
wondering where these criminals are now….they’re almost all in jail or dead.
10 - Anthony Salerno, AKA Fat Tony, with 600 million dollars
Fat Tony has become synonymous with the stereotypical gangster as he would often wear a fedora and
could be seen chomping on a cigar!
Born in East Harlem in 1911, Fat Tony made his money as a New York Mobster.
He was originally a member of the 116th street crew, which was behind a major loan sharking
operation, headed up by Trigger Mike.
When Trigger Mike went on the run, Fat Tony took over.
He eventually mad most of his fortune in a numbers racket operation.
He was eventually imprisoned in 1986 and died in 1992.
9 - El Chapo – 1 billion dollars Ah, El Chapo!
Real name Joaquin Guzman, El Chapo is head of the Mexican Sinaloa Cartel.
He became Mexico’s drug kingpin in 2003 and is known as the most powerful drug trafficker
in the world.
Thought to be worth at least a billion dollars, El Chapo specializes in cocaine and is widely
considered to be the next Pablo Escobar and also public enemy number one in America.
He was first sent to prison in 1993 but was able to escape in 2001.
He escaped prison a second time in 2015, but was caught again then extradited to the USA
in 2017.
He is still alive, but it seems unlikely he’ll ever escape prison again.
Next up, the only woman on our list, and she is FASCINATING, we have Griselda Blanco, “The
Godmother” or the black Widow - Who was worth $2 billion dollars before her death
This absolutely vicious woman was a leading member of the Medellín Cartel.
A rare female druglord in a male dominated field, Gridelda was every bit as fierce has
her male counterparts, or perhaps even worse.
She ordered 200 deaths in her time and the Colombian national was a huge influence in
the Miami Drug War.
Raking in the cash and racking up the bodies, Gridela was eventually sent to prison, although
later released.
She was killed in Colombia in 2012 age 69.
7 - Rodríguez Orejuela (ORA-HULA) Brothers worth 3 plus billion
The Orejuela (ORA-HULA) brothers formed the Cali Cartel, a Columbian Drug Smuggling group.
These guys at one point were responsible for nearly all the product in the United States
and Europe.
These two drug lords made a heck of a lot of money, and it has to be said that the Cali
cartel were less violent than the Medellín Cartel, who were more of a distraction to
the Colombian Police.
Eventually the pair of brothers were arrested and their assets seized.
Both are imprisoned at separate jails in the United States.
Another Colombian Drug Lord at number 6 Carlos Lehder who individually had 2 Billion dollars
or more.
Carlos Lehder was one of the co-founders of the murderous Medellín cartel.
He was in charge of drug running from Colombia to an island in the Bahamas off the coast
of Florida using a stolen light aircraft.
Carlos was also a member of the Guerilla group, MAS, a violent retaliation group that fought
against the kidnapping of cartel members and family members.
He eventually was extradited in 1987 and sent to prison in the United States for 55 years.
5 - Khun Sa worth 5 billion dollars Khun Sa was a Shan warlord from then Burma.
Seizing Shan and Wa, Khun went into opium production and heroine trade, making himself
a successful ad very rich drug lord.
Despite requests form the US government that he be extradited when he was discovered shipping
heroin, The Burmese government allowed him to stay in the country.
He died in 2007 age 73.
4 - Al Capone with 100 million dollars Head of the Chicago Outfit, a south side crime
syndicate, Al Capone made a huge amount of money in the prohibition era of the 1920s
by running a bootlegging business.
It is reported at the height of his criminal career, Al Capone was said to make 100 million
a year, which in its day was worth a heck of a lot more than it is now, perhaps closer
to a billion a year.
Capone was sent to Alcatraz, a famous high security prison.
He was diagnosed with syphilis and ghonerrea, which eventually lead to his serious decline
in health and death in 1947.
With 6.7 billion dollars at number three, we have Dawood Ibrahim Kaskar.
Dawood is an Indian Gangster and extremely wanted man.
Currently 61 years old, he is at the top of the largest organized crime syndicate in South
East Asia D- Company.
His busines include smuggling drugs and weapons and the US Government have called him an international
terrorist.
There is a reward for $25 million dollars for his capture and imprisonment.
2 - Amado Carrillo Fuentes who was worth around $25 billion dollars
The second richest criminal of all time was the boss of the Mexican Juarez Cartel until
1997.
He took the crown after killing the former kingpin.
Often known as Lord of The Skies because of his vast number of jet planes used to smuggle
drugs, and became so rich and successful that both the Mexican and American governments
wanted him arrested.
As a result of the mountain pressure for his capture, he underwent plastic surgery to change
his face.
Unfortunately for him, his rise to power had left a sour taste in many mouths and he was
murdered, along with his surgeons, while he was under the knife.
Finally, at number one, we have Pablo Escobar – who before his death was worth up to $30
Bil Everybody knows Pablo Escobar as the most
infamous druglord of all time.
The man was so stinking rich at one point that he had his own zoo.
The richest criminal of all time, before his murder in the 90s he was worth an estimated
30 billion dollars, like 55 billion today.
His drug network was the Medallin cartel and he had trade routes across the world.
His resume is pretty extensive so it is worth researching this guy in his own right.
Suffice to say, he raged a brutal and bloody war within Colombia, although many Colombians
still hold him in high esteem.
He was shot and killed by the police the day after his 44th Birthday.