10 RICHEST UNDERWORLD DONS OF ALL TIME

• published: 21 May 2015
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10 UNDERWORLD DONS YOU WISH TO KNOW ABOUT 1) Pablo Escobar (Colombia, $30 Billion) He was the dark lord of the Colombian drug underworld. After his humble beginnings as a tombstone robber in his teens, Escobar moved into the more profitable world of cocaine dealing. He built up Colombia’s Medellín cocaine cartel as America’s drug obsession took hold in the ‘70s. With a speculated wealth of $30 billion, 2) Amado Carrillo Fuentes (Mexico, $25 Billion) The leader of the Juarez cartel, Fuentes was called “Lord of the Skies” because he used 22 private airliners to import cocaine from Colombia to Mexico. In an attempt to evade the DEA and Mexican authorities by changing his appearance, he decided to undergo plastic surgery but died on the operating table. Not such a glamorous ending for one of Mexico’s most notorious gangsters. 3) Shinobu Tsukasa, a.k.a. Kenichi Shinoda (Japan, Multi-Billions) He is the current ring leader of Yamaguchi-gumi, the largest crime syndicate in Japan’s seedy underbelly of mobsters (called yakuza). With a membership of nearly 30,000 people, the gang that sounds more like a candy company than a killing machine comprises nearly half of Japan’s underworld. While the exact net worth of the crime boss is unknown, the Yakuza crime network brings in “billions of dollars” a year from the typical laundry list of underground ventures like drug and weapons trafficking, prostitution, and money laundering. 4) Roman Abramovich (Russia, $10.2 Billion) As the owner of the U.K.’s Chelsea Football Club, Abramovich is undoubtedly a football fan. He’s also one of Russia’s biggest extortionists. Abramovich is one of many post-Soviet oligarchs who earned his profits in business dealings tainted by underhanded agreements and hushed disputes. His $5.6-billion legal dispute with a former business partner, Boris Berezovsky, uncovered evidence involving illicit activity any mobster would appreciate: protection rackets, contract killings, arms dealings… and a beautiful Russian model for a girlfriend. 5) Semion Mogilevich (Ukraine, $10 Billion) R He’s on the FBI’s Ten Most Wanted List and is the supposed leader of the Russian Mafia. Considered the world’s most powerful money launderer, the “Brainy Don” (he holds an economics degree) has quite an investment portfolio. Through financial crimes, money laundering, and securities fraud, his scope also 6) Dawood Ibrahim Kaskar (India, $6.7 Billion) Dawood Ibrahim Kaskar Net Worth In Billions Don’t be fooled by his disarming look: Dawood Ibrahim is one of the world’s most dangerous thugs. He’s an extortionist and gold smuggler in the Mumbai underworld who allegedly organized the Mumbai bomb blasts in 2008. He has also been implicated in terrorist networks, one of which is al-Qaeda. He remains at large, and intelligence officials are still searching for him. 7) Kim Jong-Un (North Korea, $5 Billion) Supreme Leader of North Korea Kim Jong Un Ruler, dictator, “Dear Leader,” gangster — Whatever you call him, Kim Jong-Un’s notoriety should not be taken lightly. He has an estimated $5 billion net worth and a propensity for extravagant things, like parties on private islands and a 200-foot yacht. He doesn’t think twice about throwing his closest kin to the dogs (it was probably just a firing squad), and he’s friends with Dennis Rodman. It’s the makings of one sick joke, worsened by the horrifying reality that he’s also running a country ravaged by poverty and malnourishment. 8) Khun Sa (Myanmar, $5 Billion) He dubbed himself “King of the Golden Triangle,” but U.S. officials preferred to call him the “Prince of Death.” Khun Sa was lord of the heroin drug trade that encompassed Burma (now Myanmar), Laos and Thailand. He controlled an estimated 70 percent of Myanmar’s heroin business in the 1980s, which was enoug Lehder was another founder of the Colombian Medellín Cartel. Using small, low-flying airplanes that could move undetected by radar to drop points in Florida and Georgia, 10) Griselda Blanco (Colombia, $2 Billion) The “Cocaine Queen of Miami” worked under Pablo Escobar’s Medellín Cartel during the ‘70s and ‘80s. Ruthless violence and contract killings earned her the endearing name, the “Black Widow.” She returned to Colombia after serving only 10 years on drug charges. What seemed like a lucky break end