The 5 richest criminals of all time
It´s not a big secret you can get rich as a criminal very rich,but if you believe Al Capone was the richest and greatest gangster who ever stepped on our planet you´re at fault. He was not even one of the first 5 richest criminals.
1. Pablo Emilio Escobar 1949 - 1993 9 Billion USD
Pablo Escobar was definitely the greatest and richest criminal the world has
ever seen. In 1989 Forbes listed him as the seventh richest man in the world with an estimated net value of 9 Billion USD.Escobar was born in Colombia where from he estimated a drug cartel of incredible proportions. He had submarines, planes, and employed nearly every inhabitant of his hometown Medellin. On top of his career he even tried to become the president of Colombia, raged a court with tanks and build his own personal jail. All the same Palbo Escobar was shot in 1993 by an American special force.
2. Carlos Lehder 1950 - ? 2.7 Billion USD
According to my investigations the second place goes to Carlos Lehder. He worked together with Pablo Escobar and was one of the co-founders of the Medellin Cartel. His estimated net value was taxed on 2.7 Billion USD.
3. Susumu Ishii 1924 - 1991 1.5 Billion USD
Susumu Ishii was born in Tokyo in 1924. one of the heads of the Ingawa-Kai , Japan´s second largest “yakuza” underworld syndicate. Also he was the 5th soho of the Yokosusa-ikka. His estimated net value amounted to 1.5 Billion USD, which he earned through various loans, banking deals, and real estate scams. But as the Japanese economic bubble burst, Ishii was no longer “the world’s richest gangster”. His assets a his health declined rapidly, and diet one year later.
4.Anthony Salerno 1911 - 1992 600 Million USD
Anthony “Fat Tony” Salerno was a member of the American Cosa Nostra and the front boss of the Genovese crime family. He was born and raised in East Harlem, New York where he worked one´s way up to the top of New York’s mafia as a basher and shylock. In 1986 he was sentenced to 100 years prison by the “Mafia Commission Trial” where he died in 1992.
5.Meyer Lansky 1902 - 1993 400 Million USD
Meyer Lansky was born in Grodno Russia and emigrated with is family to the U.S.A in 1911, where he settled down on the East Side of Manhattan. At the age of 25 he established gambling operations in Florida and Cuba. Later he realised own vulnerability to tax evasion prosecution, in response he transferred illegal funds from his growing casino empire to Europe. A few years later he even bought a complete offshore bank in Switzerland.
The only problem by getting rich as criminal is that you probably won´t life very long so don´t get into mischiefs … 
Pablo Escobar was shot in 1993 not 1939.
Oh yea thanks little typing error I will correct that immediately.
this article is very interesting…
but more interesting is the question who is nowadays the richest criminal?
its coooooooooooooooool but can you tell me like as they show in GODFATHER are there real families with such enormous powers………..further casino is legal in US isnt it(thats why they have LAS VEGAS)then why gambling is a crime
Lansky died in 1983, not 1993. Also, Salerno was NOT that rich, but Tony Accardo of Chicago was.
What about Amado Carrillo Fuentes. That guy made a est. 25 billion of drugs and was co founder of the Medellin Cartel.
Ummm
Semion Mogilevich is richer than #2
yo he was an Og he was the man much love to him
didn’t griselda blanco make over a billion with the medellin cartel?
Your all wrong except for Dicking, Amado Carrillo Fuentes mado Over 25 billion dollars and thats just estimated. He was the leader of the Juarez Cartel. He is estimated to have Trafficked an estimated 4 times more cocaine than any other trafficker ever. If you guys do your research right, youll find that the wealthiest criminals are those of the Mexican and Colombian cartels.
Pablo Escobar sige vivo
You’re all forgetting one very important person who was enormously wealthy through crime.. Al Capone!! He made hundreds of millions of dollars during prohibition bootlegging liquor and that translats to billions of dollars adjusted for inflation!
пФМЙЮОП! оБДЕАУШ РТПДПМЦЕОЙЕ ВХДЕФ ОЕ НЕОЕЕ ЙОФЕТЕУОЩН…
чПРТПУ Л БЧФПТХ , Б ЧПФ Х ЧБУ ЧТЕНС Х ЛБЦДПК УФБФШЙ Й Ч ЛПННЕОФБТЙСИ РЙЫЕФУС… ьФП ЛБЛПЕ? нПУЛПЧУЛПЕ? ъБТБОЕЕ ВМБЗПДБТА ЪБ ПФЧЕФ.
лТХФП! дЕКУФЧЙФЕМШОП ЦЕУФШ ОБРЙУБОП.
Mate, this article is not accurate at all.
Escobar, no doubt the undisputed king of it all.
Amado Carillo Fuentes was number 2. They call him the lord of the skies for transporting coke in 747s. Dide while undergoing plastic surgery to alter his looks to delude law enforcement agents.
Guzman Loera should be in number 3 for the way he worked his way up to being the second most wanted man in the world after osama.
Griselda Blanco aka Godmother was worth 3 billion. She introduced violence in the cocaine trade in the states.
Please write better articles after doing extensive and thorough research, if not dont bother.
Thanks for the useful info. It’s so interesting
Мне вот интересно, если текст c вашего сайта себе копировать, то ссылку куда лучше ставить прямо на эту запись или же на главную страницу.
Dawood Ibrahim Is also One of the richest mob of present mafia world with an estimation of more than ! billion Dollars.
This article has many mistakes… Pablo Escobar wasn’t killed by american special forces, it was colombian authorities.
sin duda pablo el mejor narco de la historia pero no lo mataron en ese año yo creo que el mando un tipo que se opero con su mismo rostro para engañar a todo el mundo!!! soy De Ecuador
first carillo fuentes wasnt even close to any top guy in the medellin cartel. mexican cartels wouldnt be anywhere without colombians..
they for got griselda she was worth billion and lives in bogota know..
(colombians still running the game ya tusabes)
give me three years
the richest criminal in history is Amado Carrilo Fuentes , but he’s not as famous as Al Capone and Pablo Escobar , they’re considered also as very wealth but they had like 4-10 times less than Amado.
Amado had 25 BILLION dollars
Pablo had 9 BILLION dollars ( #7 at ‘89 THE RICHEST MAN of the planet)
The both were involved with drugs. Pablo started with weed , but finished with big amounts of cocain , he’s called ” EL MAGICO ” or “EL PADRONE” , It’s believed that he gained the title of ” DRUGLORD ” , because he was trading cocain from Cuba to Asia and beyond.He was the man who import the cocain in America , and made it very popular. If someone got interested ’bout pablo’s life , let him watch the movie “BLOW” based on true story..
The five richest criminals of all time? Hardly. Consider Adnan Kashoggi for example. In the early to mid-’70s he was reportedly worth some 372 billion dollars, until he made somebody angry and was sent off to prison. Although Bill Gates at the pique of his wealth was only worth about 20% of what Kashoggi was, yet Kashoggi wasn’t the richest. There are reports that among the obscure and yet most powerful secret society- the Bilderberg Group, a.k.a. Bilderbergers. It has been said that among them is the world’s only trillionaire. His name is not given, only his religion, which has been said to be Jewish. However, so little is know about him, I have not read that he is a criminal.
But Kashoggi made much of his fortune from illicit arms trading. It has been said that he supplied both sides of wars with weapons, among other things.
Correction: Bill Gates was worth aboutb 100 billion dollars at the height of the tech boom in the 90s. That puts him at about 27% of Kashoggi’s worth.
what about “el chapo” Guzman?
Guzman (mexican cartel boss) is by Forbes estimated to have 25 billion US dollars, and the guy with 400mil, man are you nuts. Big boys make that on just one coke run. Recently a few guys were arrested in Uruguay with 200mil worth of coke. God knows how many people get away with such shipments and repeat them over and over. There are probably hundreds of billionaire criminals nowadays.
Them Bilderberg punks r white collar wallstreet gangsters…they part of th goons draftin th NWO blueprints…so if u aint in th know,now u know!
Em frm Karachi’s Langra gang…We deal in drugs and arms…last month a meeting of active groups in karachi was held….This is interesting to note that there are almost 113 Drug Dealing Families are active only in karachi,amongst them almost 40 to 50 families are frm all over the world holding there foot steps in karachi….we paid 130 million Rupees royalty to MQM and PPP Leaders…I dont want to ,mention their names cause its secret….
Here is the list as far i knows being a mafia member…
1.Adnan Khashoggi
2.Amado Carrillo
3.pablo Escober
4.Guzzman
5.Magilevich
Jesus was the begining and he holds the keys 2 heaven u wil reap wat u sow do not envy murderes and men of corrupt conduct… Oh personally i think the pope is most powerful and the catholic movement valued trillions
Asia Times Report 14th May 2009…
Asia’s Most Powerful Dons?Families Are:
1.Japanese Yakuza (The Yakuza) Net Worth 2 Billion Dollars
2.Dawood Ibrahim ( D Company) Net Worth 1 Billion Dollars
3.Bal Thakray (Indian political Leader)Net Worth 30 Billion Indian Rupee
4.Altaf Hussain (Pakistan’s Political Leader)Net Worth 7.5 Billion Dollars
5.Russian Mafia (Russian) Net Worth 1.8 Billion Dollars
Yeah i agreed Altaf Hussain is the powerful and richest politician of Pakistan…He was once a taxi driver and Hawker…Zardari net worth 1.8 billion dollars…..
pablo escobar is still alive!!!!!
sigue vivo!!!!!!
It’s funny how people make such a big deal about the Italian-American mafia!!! They are & will always be considered small-time compared to their Italian ancestors. You want to see money and power??? Look no further than the “Mezzogiorno” or the southern half of Italy below Rome. Currently, global financial think tanks project or estimate that they’re bringing in around 250 billion USD a year. The five regions in the south have regional mafias. ‘Ndrangheta of Calabria, Camorra of Campania, La Cosa Nostra of Sicily, Sacra Corona Unita of Puglia and Basilischi of Basilicata are being billed as “MAFIA INC”. They all collaborate with eachother and reap these types of profits because of their camraderie. Not only do they cooperate with themselves, but with criminal groups all over the world, especially in Latin America where they get their most valuable commodities and control the European drug market. ‘Ndrangheta is the most powerful but Camorra is a close second, while La Cosa Nostra has never fully recovered from the violence of the 1980’s thru 1990’s drug trade which resulted in martial law by the state and it’s military. Italy has and always will be the gateway to Europe for anything and everything as long as the ancient culture and tradition of the ’societa honorata’ prevails and succeeds.
At the peak of his “career”, Juan Garcia Abrego, former head of the Gulf Cartel based out of Matamoros, Mx/Brownsville, Tx was raking in 10 BILLION dollars in PROFIT ANNUALLY.
Unless your a complete idiot and dont know what number is greater 9 or 25 then you know the richest criminal is Amado Carrillo fuentes with a fortune of over 25 billion dollars not to mention he pioneered the use of a fleet of 727 passenger airplanes which nor Pablo Escobar nor any russian,italian, or japanese etc mafia boss could ever do they just couldnt do it thats why Amado is the richest,most inteligente and most powerful drug lord in history.Then i would say number 2 was Pablo Escobar for his fortune and fame and violent ways fighting his cartel with others and turning medellin columbia into the murder capital of the world with a murder rate of about 350 for every 100,000 residents.Now el chapo Guzman is gaining worldwide fame cuz he turned juarez,mexico into the murder capital of the world last year and is on pace to claim the title again this year.Some people dont relize that the more people killed on behave of a cartel means how powerful it is for example if a king pin has 300 people under his order and then he sends them to fight in a city and that cities drug boss has 200 people to his command the max number of murders in that city would be 500people and plus non drug related regular murders say 200 then there would be 700 all togther imagine a city like juarez,mexico which its regular murders are around from 200 to 300 a year and last year it had 2650 murders from there you can figure out the power of the drug lord fighting to take control.
What about John Gotti? Rumours was he had over 1 billion, and his Family combined had alot more.
Nice read though, thank you.
Brian Wright
Dawood Ibrahim worth over $6-7 billion. The biggest and most feared don of all time.
He is the head of an organised crime and terror syndicate in South Asia, called the “D-Company” by South Asian media. Dawood’s D-Company has been identified as a criminal-terrorism syndicate by the US Congress. Dawood is currently on the wanted list of Interpol for organised crime and counterfeiting. He was No.4 on the Forbes 2008 list of The World’s 10 Most Wanted criminals, and no.50 on the Forbes 2009 list of The World’s Most Powerful People.
Uhhh what about Bernie Madoff??? not a glamorous criminal but without doubt a rich one.
The Rothchild family is the richest criminal of all time. If you don’t know what I’m talking about then prepare, upon researching, to wake up.
Pablo Escobar is not the richest. He is the most famous. To date Amado Carrillo fuentes has the most money. Guzman earns about 1.4 million a day. Semion Mogilevich is going to be the richest it is estimated he brings in about 700 million a year. The reason why he makes so much money is through the traficking of nuclear arms.
Listen guys all this talk comes down 2 is pure speculation….The only men who know these exact figures are the criminals we are all talkin about….Everybody is entitled to their opinion for sure, but none of us know the facts behind these drug lords,mafia men etc and probably never will.
Rothschild and the Windsors… greatest criminals of all time, after the vatican that is.
The country’s name is spelled Colombia idiot.
i was very fascinated of Pablo Escobar..it’s true that were a lot murder and a lot of things not good but he was person who wanted something and he reached that..very person has his price and depends only how high..my next model of veru rich gangster is Al Capone..good luck everyone and don’t remember..pablo was number one and every person has his brain and we have to use that how you want and think..
pacta sunt servanda..
Cool list, but Lansky was worth at least a billion dollars
Rothschild and the Windsors… greatest criminals of all time, after the vatican that is.
Amado Fuentes over 25billion dollars how did you miss that Pablo escobar was his bitch without Fuentes he wouldn’t of got as much of his product to USA Fuentes rueld the skies with his 22 private jets
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