Guzman is the most notorious drug lord of all time, according to the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA). In the 1980s, he was a member of the Guadalajara Cartel and used to work for Miguel Ángel Félix Gallardo.
Pablo Escobar: $30 Billion - Topping the list of the richest drug lords.
"Pablo Escobar".
At the height of his power in 2010, El Chapo had a peak net worth of $12 billion. After his jail term and extradition to the United States, El Chapo's net worth has now dwindled to $5 billion.
Dubbed "the king of cocaine", Escobar was the wealthiest criminal in history, having amassed an estimated net worth of US$30 billion by the time of his death—equivalent to $70 billion as of 2022—while his drug cartel monopolized the cocaine trade into the United States in the 1980s and early 1990s.
Joaquín "El Chapo" Guzmán
Guzman is the most notorious drug lord of all time, according to the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA). In the 1980s, he was a member of the Guadalajara Cartel and used to work for Miguel Ángel Félix Gallardo.
After the arrest of Joaquín "El Chapo" Guzmán and his son Ovidio Guzmán López, the cartel is now headed by old-school leader Ismael Zambada García (aka El Mayo) and Guzmán's other sons, Jesús Alfredo Guzmán and Ivan Archivaldo Guzmán Salazar.
El Chapo is locked up for life at the Supermax prison in Florence, Colorado. He somehow survived a ferocious firefight that preceded his arrest seven years ago. He was under indictment for drug trafficking at the time in Chicago but ended up extradited to New York.
The haul inside the house – including just one pile of cash estimated to be worth around $22bn – is unlikely anything you'll have ever seen before.
Cartels operating in Australia
The director of investigations at the NSW Crime Commission — the state's most powerful and secretive law enforcement agency — confirmed that members of Latin American cartels are present in Australia.
Joseph Hakan Ayik, also known as Hakan Reis (born 31 January 1979) is a Turkish - Australian drug trafficker. He has an estimated net worth of 1.2 billion dollars, and was described in June 2021 as "Australia's most wanted man".
The Sinaloa Cartel is one of the most powerful drug cartels in the world and is largely responsible for the manufacturing and importing of fentanyl for distribution in the United States. Fentanyl is a dangerous synthetic opioid that is more than 50 times more potent than heroin.
The richest drug dealer according to Forbes is currently Joaquin Guzman Loera (Mexico) the head of the Sinaloa Cartel who has an estimated fortune of USD£;1 billion (GBP£;722 million) gained from drug trafficking.
“There is no political will in Mexico to seize El Chapo's or any other drug trafficker's assets in the country,” a federal law enforcement source told The Post, estimating that the drug kingpin's family has access to “hundreds of millions” of dollars in cash, real estate and other holdings.
Several news sites are reporting that Joaquín "El Chapo" Guzmán, the head of the Sinaloa drug cartel who escaped from a Mexican prison in July 2015, offered a $100 million reward for the dead-or-alive capture of the billionaire real estate mogul, according to teleSUR.
When Zhenli Ye Gon's home in Mexico City was raided, DEA agents found mountains of cash, neatly stacked in bundles. A total of $226 million was discovered in US dollars, Pesos, Hong Kong dollars and Euros.
-- The wife of notorious Mexican cartel leader Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman was moved from a federal prison in Texas to a halfway house in Long Beach, California, according to an official with the Federal Bureau of Prisons.
Pedro and Margarito Flores, twin brothers who helped bring down El Chapo.
Pablo Escobar (1949–1993) remains publicly the most powerful and wealthiest drug lord in history.
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The reason the formation of a cartel occurs when the cost of the item or service is lower, and there are fewer competitors. This allows the Cartel to be powerful.