Who are the richest drug dealers of all time? These individuals make our iconic Tony montana look like Kabiru sokoto. Drugs are one of the biggest sources of income for those connected to cartels and other large-scale operations. These richest drug dealers of all time made unbelievable amounts of money throughout the course of their lifetimes. Some of these stories are beyond unbelievable, so you better sit down before you read this.

Note: i'm not in anyway trying to promote the dirty business but to share facts and information that most individuals rarely know.

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1. FRANK LUCAS, NET WORTH: $52 MILLION

You may be familiar with the name Frank Lucas as actor Denzel Washington played him in the 2007 movie American Gangster. Lucas was a heroin dealer in Harlem during the late 1960s and early 1970s. He was most known for cutting the middleman and receiving his drugs from the source. Lucas imported heroin directly from south east Asia to the United States, bragging that he smuggled it back in the coffins of dead American serviceman from Vietnam.

In 1976 he was sentenced to 70 years in prison after being convicted of drugs charges.

Five years later behind bars, having turned drugs supergrass he was released and went into the witness protection programme.


http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/top-10-drug-lords-ever-3180026

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JOSE FIGUEROA AGOSTO, NET WORTH: $100 MILLION

The Puerto Rican kingpin was known as the Caribbean's biggest drug lord until his arrest in 2010. He was arrested in 1999 for murder and illegal weapon possession and sentenced to 209 years, but managed to escape, fleeing to the Dominican Republic. He went under several identities and continued drug trafficking for 10 more years. Returning to Puerto Rico, he was later captured.


http://www.rantlifestyle.com/2014/05/15/the-21-richest-drug-dealers-of-all-time/

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GEORGE JUNG, NET WORTH: $100 MILLION

George Jung is one of the richest drug deallers and is well known for being portrayed by Johnny Depp in the movie “Blow” in 2001. He was a cocaine seller in the Medellin Cartel and made money when he was in power, he made lot of money and supplied cocaine to many parts of United States. He has made 100 millions at least and he bought many houses with his money instead of just storing them. He was taught coke smuggling by his cellmate Carlos Lehder while he was in prison. In November 2014 he was released.



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GMan650:
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NICKY BARNES, NET WORTH: $105 MILLION

Leroy "Nicky" Barnes led the notorious African-American organization named The Council in Harlem, controlling the heroin trade. During his time in prison, he later became an informant, helping to indict 44 traffickers after learning that his assets were not being taken care of and that one of his Council members was sleeping with his wife/mistress.


http://www.rantlifestyle.com/2014/05/15/the-21-richest-drug-dealers-of-all-time/

PAUL LIR ALEXANDER, NET WORTH: $170 MILLION

Paul Lir Alexander is a former Brazilian drug smuggler known as the Baron of cocaine. Born in Santa Catarina, Alexander worked as a Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) agent before becoming the leader of a drug-smuggling ring, you can call him the real life Raymond Ruddington of Blacklist.

He was reported to have been among the wealthiest of Rio's drug lords, with an estimated $20 million in assets, primarily in the form of real estate. Alexander specialized in sending cocaine to the United States inside electrical transformers. He was arrested by the DEA in 1993, and spent 17 years in prison before disappearing while on a temporary release from a Brazilian prison in 2010.



https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Lir_Alexander

This list is not complete without reference to Pablo Escobar the great

op wetin u dey write? these ones are even messengers where we talk of drug lords, Pablo Escobar was so rich that rats eat over $ billion dollars of his massive wealth in a year, u didn't even talk about Guzman of mexico that broke jail twice, the guy stacked over $20billion dollars raw cash in a room, even our own senator buruj kashamu granted an interview about 2 yrs ago where is said he was worth $900 million as at 1990!!!! $900M as at 1990 no be small money oo .. so who cum be these people wey dey ur list.

KGBEAST:
This list is not complete without reference to Pablo Escobar the great

Its obvious OP didn't do his research well before posting this. Pablo should be at the top of the list.
Heard he (Pablo) was so rich that he had to spend millions on rubber bands.

Guzman should be no1,escober no2 then frank lucas no3

Princeparix:


You can pay me to add you bro. Is been a while

Oops........ my hands are clean oooo. Yup itz been a while bro

Pablo escobar with over $30 billion dollars

Op no know Escobar sha, u will put the great because he was great, many people saw him as idol.

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life is all about one step at a time. With each name I mention, their net worth increases showing that I am starting from the bottom like Drake. Make una calm

Guess more is still coming...
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JOSEPH KENNEDY, NET WORTH: $400 MILLION


Known as the father of President John F. Kennedy, Joseph Kennedy was said to be an illegal liquor bootlegger. During times of the Prohibition, Kennedy smuggled a huge amount of illegal alcohol into the U.S., adding to his already vast fortune.

http://www.rantlifestyle.com/2014/05/15/the-21-richest-drug-dealers-of-all-time/

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Guess more is still coming...
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FREEWAY" RICKY ROSS, NET WORTH: $600 MILLION

Here comes the boss before THE BOSS. Freeway Rick Ross, original name Ricky Donnell Ross, is known as a celebrity to be precise. His role behind the cocaine crack distribution in 1980 is true and genuine, and he was the cocaine supplier that led to the death of several millions of people in 1999, making piles of dollars out of it. He has been into drug selling since 19 years old. In fact, we can say he is the one who has created this addiction in Los Angeles . His crack factory can produce and sell drugs of 2-3 millions of dollars on a daily basis.

From 1982 to 1989, “Freeway” Rick Ross bought and sold up to several metric tons of cocaine, and it is rumored that in one day he sold $3 million worth of cocaine. At his peak, his net worth was upwards of $1 billion. He was sentenced to life in prison in 1996, but he was released in 2009.

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RAFAEL CARO QUINTERO, NET WORTH: $650 MILLION


Here comes the first Mexican drug lord. Rafael Caro Quintero is the oldest among his four brothers. He was primarily into the business of marijuana and he has many farms in Sonora where he can reap the plants. He also sells cocaine and methamphetamine and makes plenty of dollars from this business. In 1980, he along with his brothers ingratiated with the local government and law enforcement to such an extent that they were able to operate and function with impunity. And the only reason why that could work is that they invested a large amount of money to improve the community for various financing activities like real estate and construction projects. However, this Mexican drug lord was still sentenced to jail for 40 years in 1985.


http://www.celebritynetworth.com/articles/entertainment-articles/20-richest-drug-dealers-time/

JOAQUIN LOERA AKA CHAPO GUZMAN, NET WORTH: $1 BILLION


Loera was considered the most powerful drug trafficker in the world by the United States Department of Treasury. He was the leader of the most powerful cartel in the world today; the Sinaloa Cartel in Mexico.

Each year from 2009 to 2011 Forbes magazine ranked Guzmán as one of the most powerful people in the world, ranking 41st, 60th, and 55th respectively. He was thus the second most powerful man in Mexico, after Carlos Slim. He was named as the 10th richest man in Mexico (1,140th in the world) in 2011, with a net worth of roughly US$1 billion. The magazine also calls him the "biggest drug lord of all time",and the US Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) estimates he has surpassed the influence and reach of Pablo Escobar, and now considers him "the godfather of the drug world". In 2013, the Chicago Crime Commission named Guzmán "Public Enemy Number One" for the influence of his criminal network in Chicago, though there is no evidence that Guzmán has ever been in that city. The last person to receive such notoriety was Al Capone in 1930.

Guzmán's Sinaloa Cartel transports multi-ton cocaine shipments from Colombia through Mexico to the United States, the world's top consumer, and has distribution cells throughout the U.S. The organization has also been involved in the production, smuggling and distribution of Mexican methamphetamine, marijuana, ecstasy (MDMA)and heroin across both North America and Europe. By the time of his 2014 arrest, Guzmán had exported more drugs to the United States than anyone else: more than 500 tons (450,000 kg) of cocaine in the U.S. alone.

Guzmán was captured in 1993 in Guatemala, extradited and sentenced to 20 years in prison in Mexico for murder and drug trafficking. After bribing prison guards, he was able to escape from a federal maximum-security prison in 2001. He was wanted by the governments of Mexico and the United States, and by INTERPOL. The U.S. offered a US$5 million reward for information leading to his capture, and the Mexican government offered a reward of 60 million pesos (approximately US$3.8 million) for information on Guzmán.

Guzmán was arrested by Mexican authorities in Mexico on 22 February 2014. He was found inside his fourth-floor condominium in Mazatlán, Sinaloa, and was captured without any gunshots being fired. Guzmán escaped from prison again on 11 July 2015 by exiting through a tunnel that led to a nearby construction site. He was recaptured by Mexican marines following a shootout on 8 January 2016.



https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joaqu%C3%ADn_Guzm%C3%A1n

Princeparix:


Bro I don find you the way me d find weed for heaven.

lol
Good morning

Any way na way.....make we sha make this money!!

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player007:

Its obvious OP didn't do his research well before posting this. Pablo should be at the top of the list.
Heard he (Pablo) was so rich that he had to spend millions on rubber bands.

He once spent about $250,000 by literally burning it to keep his daughter warm, he was a boss
And to the original o.p, duely noted

AL CAPONE, NET WORTH: $1.3 BILLION



Born on January 17, 1899, in Brooklyn, New York, Alphonse Capone was the fourth of nine children. His parents, Gabriele, a barber, and Teresa Capone, were immigrants from Angri, Italy. Capone belonged to a street gang as a boy and dropped out of school in sixth grade, later joining the Five Points Gang in Manhattan and working as a bouncer and bartender at the Harvard Inn, a Coney Island bar owned by mobster Frankie Yale. In 1918, he married Mae Coughlin; the couple remained together until Capone’s death and had one child, Sonny.

In 1917, Capone’s face was slashed during a fight at the Harvard Inn, after he insulted a female patron and her brother retaliated, leaving him with three indelible scars. Capone would attempt to shield the scarred side of his face in photographs, and tried to write them off as war wounds—although he never served in the military. After achieving prominence as a gangster, Capone was dubbed Scarface by the press, a nickname he intensely disliked. Criminal associates referred to the mob boss as the Big Fellow, while friends knew him as Snorky, a slang term that meant spiffy.

Although he controlled a criminal empire and ordered hits on a multitude of his enemies, Capone managed to avoid prosecution for years by paying off police and public officials and threatening witnesses. The mob boss finally was slapped with his first criminal conviction in May 1929, after he was arrested for carrying a concealed weapon in Philadelphia—at the time, he was on his way back to Chicago following a summit of organized-crime honchos in Atlantic City, New Jersey—and swiftly sentenced to a year in jail. He was freed in March 1930 and a month later the Chicago Crime Commission released its first-ever list of the city’s worst criminals; Capone was named Public Enemy No. 1.

Meanwhile, on orders from President Herbert Hoover to nail Capone, the federal government built a case against the crime boss for income-tax fraud, and in June 1931, he was indicted on charges of tax evasion. Capone agreed to a plea deal that included a recommended prison sentence of two-and-a-half years; however, the judge in the case refused to accept the deal. Capone withdrew his guilty plea and the case went to trial. At the start of the highly publicized proceedings, the judge switched out the pool of prospective jurors after learning bribes had been offered in an effort to seat a Capone-friendly jury. In October 1931, the all-male jury (Illinois didn’t allow female jurors until 1939) found the gangster guilty of five charges (three felonies and two misdemeanors) of the more than 20 counts against him. He was sentenced to 11 years behind bars and fined $50,000; it was the harshest sentence delivered for tax fraud up to that point.


http://www.history.com/news/history-lists/8-things-you-should-know-about-al-capone

GRISELDA BLANCO, NET WORTH: $2 BILLION


Griselda Blanco was one of the most notorious Colombian cocaine drug lords during the 1970s and 1980s. Her cruelty and reign could only be rivaled by Pablo Escobar, who followed in her footsteps. While Escobar was stealing cars in Medellin, Griselda was building a cocaine empire in New York. Nicknamed "The Godmother of Cocaine," her vicious cruelty was almost unmatched—if you owed her money, she killed you; if she owed you money, she killed you; if you offended her somehow, she killed you. The total number of murders that Griselda was behind is still unknown, but it is estimated to be anywhere between 40 and 200 people.

While still in her preteens and working at as a prostitute, Griselda met her first husband Carlos Trujillo, a known street hustler and counterfeiter. Through carefully watching and working along side her husband, she would learn the basics of running a criminal organization.

The couple had three children together and divorced in the late 1960s. Like the rest of her future three husbands, Griselda had Carlos killed a few years after their divorce, which earned her the name "The Black Widow"—one of her many nicknames.

She established herself as the "Godmother of Cocaine." During her time in Miami, she orchestrated one of the bloodiest eras in Miami history called "The Cocaine Wars." Under her brutal reign, Miami became the murder capital of the United States. Griselda even invented a favorite method of assassination for many drug lords—the "Motorcycle Assassin," where two armed assassins on a motorcycle gun down their victims as they drive by.

The bullet-ridden corpses were pilling up in the Miami morgues, and at one point the medical examiner had to rent a refrigerated truck from a local Burger King in order to store all the new dead bodies.

At her hight, it was estimated that Griselda was making $80 million a month.


http://allday.com/post/6047-before-there-was-pablo-escobar-there-was-griselda-blanco-the-godmother-of-cocaine/

CARLOS LEHDER, NET WORTH: $2.7 BILLION


Rivas is the son of a German father and a Colombian mother. He used to do cocaine business, and he commandeered one small island in Bahamas, where he used to supply drugs to many places, and he also commanded the veritable drug smuggling base which has a complete set of armed troops and multiple hangers. He used the private planes for smuggling business. He was sentenced to life plus 135 years in 1987 but was offered testimony later in 1992, which makes his life sentence reduced to 55 years.

Leder was the co-founder of the Medellin Cartel in Colombia. He ran a cocaine transport empire on Norman's Cay, an island in the Bahamas that he bought.

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THE OREJUELA BROTHERS, NET WORTH: $3 BILLION



Gilberto and Miguel Orejuela founded the Cali Cartel in Colombia. They began trafficking marijuana, but then shifted to cocaine because of the ease of transportation and how much more money it was worth. The cartel is known for innovation in trafficking and production, and was known for being less violent and more professional than their Medellin rivals.

These two brothers once controlled over 90 percent of the world’s cocaine market. Together, their profits measured just over $3 billion.


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JOSE GONZALO RODRIGUEZ GACHA, NET WORTH: $5 BILLION


Known by the nickname El Mexicano, Gacha was one of the leaders of the Medellin Cartel along with Pablo Escobar. During the height of his career in the late 1970s, Gacha was acknowledged as one of the most successful drug dealers.

Colombian drug lord Jose Gonzalo Rodriguez Gacha, nicknamed “El Mexicano” for short, had a net worth of $5 billion in his prime. He was eventually caught and cornered by 300 police. Instead of succumbing, he killed himself with a grenade to the face.


http://ppcorn.com/us/2015/12/29/top-10-richest-drug-dealers-of-all-time/