Big drug dealers & gangsters of today?

[Misc]

Are there any like back in the day? Watched 'Blow' last night (fantastic movie) so was intrigued by reading up after on some of the characters, especially Escobar. Pretty amazing empire he had.

Don't hear about anything like that today, maybe a local dealer or two but that's about it. Has it really become that hard to smuggle drugs nowadays? Back then in the 70s it looked pretty simple.

[Kickstart]

Hi

Suspect far more are being smuggled now than then, but probably through lots of small operations. The bigger the operation the more likely it is to draw attention to itself.

All the best

Keith
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[Oz.]

With keith on this one, according to an article I read somewhere recently, there are around 300 Mr Bigs when it comes to importing drugs into the UK. So can only imagine it would be the same in other countries.

[GhostRider]

Thing is esocobar ran an empire the likes of which were never seen before, and I'd be surprised if there was any one handling such an operation of such scale single handedly (figuratively speaking) today.

There are plenty of Mr Bigs out there, but obviously they keep off the radar as much as possible, theres a lot more surveillance and ways to lock someone up than there were back in good old pablo's day. In addition a lot tie themselves in to many legitimate businesses, not so much to launder the money, but to give the impression of being legitmate, and I suppose have that extra money coming in on top of the extortion, debt collecting and drug running income.

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[Misc]

Cheers guys, very interesting.

[Faldo]

Drug dealers of that magnitude are a thing of the past. Escobars main advantage was the corruption of the Columbian government and his 'Robin Hood' status in Medillin, which meant the locals always covered his back.

Today, at least in my area, the biggest 'gangsters' are involved in mobile phone VAT fraud. The thing is, most are to greedy to stop once they're ahead and end up flaunting their wealth.

There was/is a particular guy around here that drove around in Ferraris and helicopters, lived in a massive house a generally lived the life. He was already rich running many businesses (including drugs), but he and his buddies cottoned on to VAT fraud, got caught and went to prison. He also went to prison for shooting somebody in a 'gang war'. What was the point? Why have loads of money that you can't touch whilst in an 8x8?
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My mates dad used to be a big coke dealer, made so much money from it he started his own business. Most people would recognise the name of the company aswell but I can't say for obvious reasons.

He now lives in a very nice villa in Spain after pissing off years ago.
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