There was a time when Pablo Escobar had so much money from drug trafficking that he had 15 planes and 6 helicopters to transfer drugs to the United States. However, the first phase of cocaine went through a submarine. The CIA has found its location, and they believe that there is a fortune inside.
Pablo Escobar, the leader of the Medellin Cartel, supplied 80% of the cocaine consumed in the United States in the 1980s. This data is enough to get an idea of the fortune he made. In fact, in 1989 he was the seventh richest man in the world according to Forbes magazine
Escobar began his criminal career as a teenager selling contraband cigarettes and stealing cars in the streets of Medellín (Colombia). From there he made the leap to cocaine trafficking in the 1970s, an activity that made him a "celebrity" and one of the most powerful men on the planet, even having that film fleet to pass the drugs.
Years later, in the mid-1980s, the Pablo Escobar cartel contributed 420 million dollars a week, almost 22,000 million dollars a year. Investigators say that most of their fortune was kept in cash in several places.
Some of that money has been found, the other part continues unaccounted for, although now they could be very close to finding part of the loot. The CIA has found the remains of a submarine that Escobar used to transport cocaine from Colombia to Puerto Rico, before it was transported to the United States.
Apparently, the place where the submarine sank is at a point on the coast of Colombia. The Discovery channel has accompanied two former agents of the CIA, who at the moment are looking for possible fortune, although until now they have only hit metal and a box, without more clues about the cash.
If they were finally right, the researchers believe that the alleged amount hidden by Escobar would amount to 70 million dollars. If the American team found it on Colombian soil, who would the money belong to? [DailyMail]