25B in 1989 would make Pablo one of the richest persons on earth. By comparison, today's most notorious narcos are not making the cut. It seems like "the business" has become more complicated than before.
If it is true then I am really glad about that. But unfortunately, what I am hearing is, corrupted politicians and businessmen are more richer than what we do see in mainstream media. We need to account the level of smartness has been developed across all human beings and level of possible corruption happens with authorities who are supposed to be making those business complicated.
For some reasons, the real earnings of drug dealers are not coming to limelight. One probable reason must be "setting up wrong example to new generations". Hence, I am not reedy to agree that notorious people are not equally growing up in this modern era by considering the rate of illegal activities at every part of this world.
I think Escobar's fortune was much higher, but due to his decline in his last year of life, the problem with the Colombian government that triggered many of the Medellin Cartel leaving him alone and did not support him financially because he was killing to almost all his friends, this caused him to have stolen from his own friends, so when he died the lands, goods and everything he had had to be distributed so that they would let his family live, in fact now one of the bosses and The biggest drug traffickers in history is not OTONIEL, (who recently caught) for me they are in Venezuela, since the same government is the punisher for drug trafficking, and the government entities that have many front men have so much money, and Venezuela is exploited every minute in gold and precious stones, so it is incalculable for me now to say who is the most millionaire of all.
