He was one of the wealthiest criminals in history, having amassed an estimated net worth of USD 30 billion at the time.
Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu has compared YSRCP chief YS Jagan Mohan Reddy to Colombian drug lord Pablo Escobar. Naidu slammed the state of law and order and alleged drug menace in the past five years when Reddy led the state as CM. But who was Pablo Escobar?
Pablo Escobar was a Colombian drug lord who rose to infamy as the leader of the Medellín cartel. He was considered the world’s most powerful drug trafficker in the 1980s and early 90s.
Born in December 1949 in Colombia’s Rionegro, he began criminal activities while in his teenage. He dropped out of college and began engaging in activities such as selling illegal cigarettes and fake lottery tickets and participating in motor vehicle theft. His father was a farmer and his mother was a schoolteacher. He was arrested for the first time in a car theft case in 1974. Pablo was one of the…