Sebastián Marroquín, son of Pablo Escobar, talks about the capo’s mysterious fortune

Besides being considered one of the most dangerous drug traffickers, Pablo Escobar was also known for having accumulated one of the greatest fortunes in history.

The former leader of the Medellín Cartel, considered the largest cocaine trafficking organization in history, accumulated so much power that the Colombian state declared war on him and later offered to pay the country’s foreign debt in exchange for not being extradited.

In fact, in October 1987, Forbes magazine included Escobar Gaviria on its list of the richest men in the world.

Likewise, it is estimated that the fortune of ‘El Patron’ oscillated between 9,000 and the $ 15 billionBut the question is where is all that money?

In an interview for the Globonews channel, Pablo Escobar’s son, who today is called Sebastián Marroquín, assured that his father was not very good at numbers.

“I think he didn’t know how many millions he had”Marroquín added.

He also assured that neither he nor his family obtained a peso from his fortune, just as he said in 2010, when he commented that his father had only bequeathed him a watch, which had incalculable sentimental value.

“When we left the country after his death, the government took everything. Everything is in the hands of the authorities and not of the victims, as it should be ”, said the author of the book ‘Pablo Escobar, my father’.

That December 2, 1993, the life of the Escobar family changed radically, as they went from having a life full of eccentricities to being stripped of their father’s fortune, since after the murder at the hands of the authorities, the kingpin’s enemies were to collect all they had invested in assassinating him.

For his part, Marroquín assured the Uruguayan newspaper El País during an interview that “They did me a favor: I don’t have to take that fortune to parties.”

In fact, in a chapter of his book he asks where the money is because he too would like to know.

Although, he claimed to know where a part of the fortune went after the death of his father, it was information that he could never give because he had been threatened with death – both he and his family.

“I took advantage of the opportunity that the heads of the Cali cartel gave me to preserve my life and I fulfilled the promise to leave the country, to educate myself, to be a good man, I became an architect, a lecturer, a teacher, a writer, documentary maker and today I am the father of a family “, said the son of the drug dealer.

Although it sounds little credible to many that the boss of the bosses has not managed to leave a bit of fortune to his family, his son, who today is dedicated to carrying a message against corruption and drug trafficking, assured to the Uruguayan environment that “The level of corruption was not free, he changed the constitution in his favor and that was not free either and he mounted a war against a state, which is not cheap either.”

The truth is that the great fortune that the drug trafficker enjoyed since the 70s included a house in Miami Beach valued at almost 763 thousand dollarsI also pay $ 8 million for a 5-story, 70-unit building in Plantation, Florida.

According to reports from the National Narcotics Directorate of Colombia (DNE), Escobar was the owner of hotels in Venezuela, Panama and the United StatesHe also had farms in Jamaica and other Caribbean islands.

But that’s not all, who was one of the most sought after bosses, he also had shares in the parent company of two banks in Europe and securities acquired on the Tokyo Stock Exchange.

Even in 1996, three years after his death, Semana magazine stated that state security agencies believed that most of Escobar’s money was in various parts of the world.

This, due to the hundreds of figureheads that the boss had and of whom only his brother, Roberto Escobar, knew.

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