The 5 richest criminals of all time

[Ste]

1. Pablo Emilio Escobar 1949-1993 9 Billion USD

Pablo Escobar was definitely the greatest and richest criminal the world has ever seen.

https://www.worldfinancialblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/04/pablo_escobar_wanted_copy-238x300.jpg

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 Columbia 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 Columbia, 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 …

[colin1]

Hmm if u are gonna cut and paste, you could at least correct the mistakes.

Bill Gates, has broken numerous laws, to do with the way Microsoft operates, so technically, he's a breaker of laws richer than the guys you listed.

He had $53billion in 2006 so god knows what he has now.
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[Faldo]

Although Gates might have been guilty of some crime (much like a local billionaire to me), his empire wasn't solely built on illegal activity like Escobar.

Also, it depends on how you calculate wealth. I'd imagine owning more than a fifth of the entire planet as Genghis Khan's empire did would place him at the top of the list . Of course, in recent times Mr Hussain wanted for nothing and probably had more wealth than some in that list.
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[colin1]

murder is a crime.

Maybe you should rank criminals by the numbers they killed.

Illegal wars such as the invasion of Iraq, by those evil criminals Bush and Blair, led to the deaths of nearly a million people, but they are amateurs compared to the radical policies in mass killing by Mao, Stalin and Hitler.
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[Carl_steveo]

[The Artist]

This thread should be retitled richest traditional criminals before more people jump on the, "Bill gates and the government are richer" bandwagon

[Faldo]

[Dom_]

Colin if you think any billionaires alive today have never broken a law to get where they are then you'll be sadly mistaken. Maybe this thread should have just been taken from the sunday times rich list then??