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Hunt For Drug Lord's Millions
    #10274797 - 05/02/09 07:04 PM (14 years, 10 months ago)

Hunt For Drug Lord's Millions
May 3, 2009 - Sunday Express

AN Indiana Jones-style race is on to unearth tens of millions of dollars buried in secret locations by the notorious drug baron Pablo Escobar.

And one team of fortune-seekers poised to join the dangerous treasure hunt in the jungles of Colombia is led by a former Scots Guard, John Miller.

The hunt has been triggered by astonishing revelations over the whereabouts of Escobar’s illicit fortunes in a new book, Escobar: The Untold Story Of The World’s Most Powerful Criminal, written by his brother Roberto, a former cartel “accountant.”

Roberto says that Escobar, killed in a shoot-out with troops and US drug enforcement agents in Medellin, Columbia, in December 1993, left fortunes salted away in Swiss bank accounts.

Since numbers for those accounts were known only to Escobar, the wealth deposited in them is likely to be lost for ever.

But, Roberto reveals, huge sums in cash were simply buried. And the hunt is on to find the hidden money.

So far only $8million (£5million), along with an arsenal of weapons, has been recovered from underground vaults at a sprawling complex built in the jungle for Escobar.

Enormous sums, the locations of which Roberto has not revealed, remain buried in or near other properties owned by Escobar in Colombia and other countries, including Mexico.

“Pablo was earning so much that each year we’d write off 10 per cent of the money because rats would eat it in storage or it would be damaged by water or lost,” writes Roberto, who was released from prison in 2004 after serving 12 years for criminal conspiracy.

“We had so much money we would spend as much as $2,500 (£1,600) on rubber bands just to hold the money together. We’d holiday in Las Vegas, where we’d have dinner with Frank Sinatra, on petty cash.”

At the height of his power, Escobar, who was 44 when he was killed, was listed by America’s Forbes Magazine as the seventh richest man in the world.

Mercenary John Miller is believed to have assembled an elite team to take on cartel leaders and their “soldiers” who are scrambling to pinpoint the buried millions.

Miller is the Glasgow-born former Scots Guard who masterminded the audacious kidnapping of Great Train Robber Ronnie Biggs from Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, in 1981.

Through an intermediary, Miller, now 56, said yesterday: “My men will be ready for any rumble in the jungle.

The team includes six former SAS men who have seen service in Iraq and Afghanistan. They are better trained and better equipped than any other fighting force they are likely to encounter.”

Miller said that Roberto Escobar’s book has “blown the lid off” a 16-year mystery over the whereabouts of the bulk of Escobar’s fortune which, according to Roberto, was growing at a rate of $3million a week in the late Seventies.

Miller claimed: “We have intelligence beyond the little that is divulged in the pages of that book.

“We also have the technical expertise to be able to extract our target swiftly and efficiently, whoever chooses to stand in our path.”

Escobar, lover of Columbian TV star Virginia Vallejo, employed thousands of people.

He erected enormous drug labs in the jungle, some of which grew into mini cities, complete with schools, according to his brother’s book.

Later, inspired by a James Bond film, he even built submarines to smuggle cocaine.

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Re: Hunt For Drug Lord's Millions [Re: veggie]
    #10277972 - 05/03/09 12:19 PM (14 years, 10 months ago)

His life would have been an interesting one to live.


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Re: Hunt For Drug Lord's Millions [Re: kman980]
    #10278063 - 05/03/09 12:38 PM (14 years, 10 months ago)

“We had so much money we would spend as much as $2,500 (£1,600) on rubber bands just to hold the money together"

wow


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Re: Hunt For Drug Lord's Millions [Re: Alicedee25]
    #10279271 - 05/03/09 05:00 PM (14 years, 10 months ago)

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Re: Hunt For Drug Lord's Millions [Re: veggie]
    #10279938 - 05/03/09 07:09 PM (14 years, 10 months ago)

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Pablo was earning so much that each year we’d write off 10 per cent of the money because rats would eat it in storage or it would be damaged by water or lost




Haha, crazy.


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Re: Hunt For Drug Lord's Millions [Re: eris]
    #10280123 - 05/03/09 07:39 PM (14 years, 10 months ago)

two and a half grand just to buy rubber bands to stack your cash...

now THATS a rubber band man...


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Re: Hunt For Drug Lord's Millions [Re: clorox]
    #10283620 - 05/04/09 01:03 PM (14 years, 10 months ago)

Im watching a documentary on him on the History channel


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