Medellin cartel boss, Pablo Escobar, the king of cocaine brought in almost $420 million per week at the peak of his reign.
According to Roberto Escobar, the cartel’s chief accountant, they drug lord lost about $2.1 billion to rats since he would stash the cash in his Columbian farming field and warehouses. He would also hide the money in the walls of the cartel members.Pablo was earning so much that each year we would write off 10% of the money because the rats would eat it in storage or it would be damaged by water or lost
Juan Pablo Escobar, (now Sebastian Marroquin), claimed that his father once torched $2 million in crisp banknotes in order to keep his family warm while they were on the run.
The only problem the brothers had was to neatly organizing the bank notes. The cartel used nearly $2,500 to buy elastic rubber bands to to hold stacks of bills together.
