What was El Chapo worth?

Guzmán, the infamous former leader of the Sinaloa cartel
Sinaloa cartel
The Sinaloa Cartel (Spanish: Cártel de Sinaloa), also known as the CDS, the Guzmán-Loera Organization, the Pacific Cartel, the Federation and the Blood Alliance, is a large international drug trafficking, money laundering, and organized crime syndicate established in Mexico during the late 1980s as one of a various ...
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, is serving a life sentence in a US prison. He was one of the biggest traffickers of drugs to the US and, in 2009, entered Forbes' list of the world's richest men at number 701, with an estimated worth of $1bn.
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What was El Chapo's net worth?

His drug empire made Guzmán a billionaire, and he was ranked the 10th richest man in Mexico and 1,140th in the world in 2011, with a net worth of roughly US$1 billion. To assist his drug trafficking, the Sinaloa Cartel also built a shipping and transport empire.
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Is El Chapo still rich?

At his height, El Chapo had over $14 billion, and was still making money hand over fist whilst behind bars. Today, the drug lord is thought to have significantly less, but his wealth can still be seen on his son's social media accounts.
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Who is the richest drug lord now?

1. Pablo Escobar: $30 Billion – Topping the list of the richest drug lords.
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Who is the biggest drug lord 2021?

As of 2021, the Sinaloa Cartel remains Mexico's most dominant drug cartel. 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.
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How Much El Chapo Was Really Worth



How rich was Pablo Escobar in today's money?

Dubbed "the king of cocaine", Escobar is the wealthiest criminal in history, having amassed an estimated net worth of US$30 billion by the time of his death—equivalent to $64 billion as of 2021—while his drug cartel monopolized the cocaine trade into the United States in the 1980s and early 1990s.
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Did Pablo Escobar Meet El Chapo?

Chapo started to come up in the late 1990s. Pablo never met Chapo. Pablo's contacts in Mexico in the '80s —we had great evidence, we had fax intercepts —were people like Amado Carrillo Fuentes, [known as] El Señor de Los Cielos. But Pablo never met with Chapo.
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Who is El Chapo's boss?

El Mayo is the leader of Mexico's Sinaloa cartel, taking over five years ago for the notorious drug lord known as El Chapo. El Mayo has been on the lam for decades. He is 73 and said to be in ill health, and may no longer be on the run. For decades, he was the right hand man to Joaquin El Chapo Guzman.
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Who is the Number 1 drug lord in the world?

Singapore – Building on its growing slate of Asia Pacific Originals, Discovery today announced exclusive new special, The World's Biggest Druglord – Tse Chi Lop, documenting the rise and capture of a criminal mastermind and one of the world's most wanted fugitives for the very first time.
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Is Pablos money still buried?

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.
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Where is Escobar's family now?

The Aftermath Of Pablo Escobar's Death

As Colombian police stormed Medellín and rounded up Escobar's cartel, Maria Victoria Henao and her two children packed up their lives and fled. After Germany and Mozambique denied them asylum, the family eventually settled in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
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Where is Pablo Escobar's wife now?

María Victoria Henao currently lives in an apartment in Buenos Aires along with her son and Pablo's mother with a new identity of either María Isabel Santos Caballero or Victoria Eugenia Henao.
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How is El Chapo doing?

Guzman was convicted in 2019 of conducting a continuing criminal enterprise, including large-scale narcotics violations and a murder conspiracy, drug trafficking conspiracies, unlawful use of a firearm, and a money laundering conspiracy. He is currently serving a life sentence.
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Who is the most powerful cartel?

It's the Sinaloa Cartel. An organisation that despite the arrests and murders of its main leaders, is still in force and is perhaps the most powerful criminal structure in the underworld.
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Has finding Escobar's millions found anything?

A nephew of infamous drug lord Pablo Escobar has said he found a plastic bag with money worth $18m (£14m) hidden in the wall of one of his uncle's houses. Nicolás Escobar told Colombian media "a vision" indicated where to look for the money in the apartment where he lives in the city of Medellín.
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Who got Pablo Escobar money?

A nephew of Colombian drug lord Pablo Escobar says he found $18 million of cash hidden inside a wall of one his uncle's homes. Nicolas Escobar claimed a “vision” told him exactly where to look for the money inside the Medellin apartment he now lives in, according to reports.
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Is finding Escobar's millions a real show?

Finding Escobar's Millions (TV Series 2017–2019) - IMDb.
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Who made the most money in drug trafficking?

Amado Carrillo Fuentes

As a top drug-trafficker in Mexico, Amado Carrillo (1956–1997) was transporting four times more cocaine to the U.S. than any other trafficker, building a fortune of over $25 billion.
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