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The nephew of the infamous drug lord Pablo Escobar has said he found a plastic bag of cash worth $ 18 million ($ 27 million) hidden in the wall of one of his uncle’s houses.
Nicolás Escobar told the Colombian media “a vision” indicated where to look for the money on the walls of the apartment where he has lived for five years in the city of Medellín.
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Pablo Escobar was a Colombian drug trafficker who was assassinated in 1993. He reportedly hid money in numerous properties in Medellín.
Capo Escobar allegedly hid millions of dollars in his properties where he hid to avoid arrest. He spent decades fighting the Colombian government to avoid extradition to the United States and was eventually killed in a police shootout in 1993.
At the peak of his career, Escobar, known as ‘The King of Cocaine’, was said to be the seventh richest person on the planet. It is believed to be responsible for about 4,000 deaths.
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Nicolas Escobar he told the Colombian television channel Red + Noticias He had found other items next to the bills, some of which are damaged and unusable, in the apartment. They include a gold pen, satellite phones, a typewriter, and a roll of undeveloped film.
In the interview, he said that he was once kidnapped by people looking for Escobar’s whereabouts: “They tortured me for seven hours. Two of my workers were attacked with a chainsaw.”
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