Jakarta –
Recently, the son of drug kingpin JoaquinEl Chapo‘ Guzman Loera, Ovid Guzman, was arrested in Culiacan on Thursday (5/1/2023) yesterday. During the arrest of him, there was a fight that killed 29 people, namely 10 soldiers and 19 criminal suspects.
The reason Ovidio was arrested was that he was under suspicion of helping run his father’s operations since El Chapo was extradited to the United States in 2017.
El Chapo himself is known as one of the wealthiest drug cartels. In a report from the 2019 edition of the New York Times, Sunday (8/1/2023), he made a lot of money selling drugs. He is said to have owned a couple of yachts, a fleet of Learjets and a private zoo which contained tigers, crocodiles and panthers.
During his career as a drug dealer, he sold nearly 600,000 kg (worth over $11 billion), 200 kg of heroin (worth over $11 million), and at least 420,000 kg of marijuana (worth over $11 billion). worth nearly $11 million). $846 million). However, the prosecutor handling the El Chapo case said it was still an estimate of the total amount of drugs still unknown.
El Chapo is also known to own several houses. After El Chapo’s arrest, the Mexican government confiscated 6 of his homes on Sunday (8/1/2023), Celebrity Net Worth reported. So, 3 of them were auctioned off. The homes sold for US$107,530, US$64,589 and US$55,725.
Previously, Joaquin Guzman was on the Forbes list of richest people four times before he was permanently dropped from the list in 2012.
According to detikcom records, in 2012 his total wealth reached 1 billion US dollars or 15.5 trillion rupees (exchange rate of 15,630 rupees). However, according to Forbes, El Chapo’s net worth is already hard to track and it’s hard to know how he has used the wealth he earned from drug sales.
Besides El Chapo, there are some of the richest drug lords in the world. Below is a list of the richest drug kingpins in the world, quoted from worthly.com, namely:
- Pablo Escobar is worth US$30 billion or Rp. 468.9 trillion.
- Amado Carrillo Fuentes has assets worth US$25 billion or Rp 390.7 trillion. He is also said to own 27 Boeing 727s.
- Dawood Ibrahim Kaskar has assets worth US$6.7 billion or Rp 104.7 trillion.
- The Ochoa Brothers have assets worth US$6 billion or Rp.93.7 trillion.
- Khun Sa has assets worth US$5 billion or Rp 78.1 trillion.
- Jose Gonzalo Rodriquez Gacha has assets worth US$5 billion or IDR 78.1 trillion.
- Gilberto and Miguel Orejuela have assets worth US$3 billion or Rp 46.8 trillion.
- Carlos Lehder has assets worth US$2.7 billion or Rp 42.2 trillion.
- Griselda Blanco has assets worth US$2 billion or Rp. 31.2 trillion.
- Joaquin ‘El Chapo’ Guzman Loera has a net worth of 1 billion US dollars or about Rp 15.5 trillion.
(La la)
