Financial criminals commit fraud for fabulous sums, lucky thieves are a little behind them. The most famous criminals in the world are mafiosi and legendary maniacs.

Notorious financial criminals

A financial criminal is someone who evades paying taxes, who confuses a corporate “wallet” with a personal one, manipulates financial reporting. Often financial crimes are committed by top managers of large firms. Almost all of them were previously role models and had an impeccable reputation.

One of the most notorious financial criminals is Bernard Ebbers. He was the head of the largest telephone provider in the United States, he organized the 11 billion dollar scam, which became the largest in American history. Due to the bankruptcy of the corporation, about seventeen thousand people lost their jobs. Ebbers' accomplice in this crime was Scott Sullivan.

The leaders of the concern "Tuso" for financial crimes were sentenced to twenty-five years each. We are talking about Dennis Kozlovsky, whose accomplice was Mark Schwartz. The company's funds were used by them as personal. They bought jewelry, clothes, art objects.

Jeffrey Skilling, CEO of Enron, and CFO Andrew Fastov were also sentenced to prison. They played on the stock exchange using insider information. In addition, this duo hid the real financial position of the company from the auditors, making sure that no one knew about the billions in losses.

Another major financial fraudster is Martin Grass, the owner of a chain of pharmacies in the United States, who at one time headed Rite Aid. He credited his company with one billion six hundred million dollars in excess profits. Grass forged the transcripts of board meetings several times, engaged in falsification of financial statements gave false information to the SEC. According to this fraudster, he did not take a cent from the company's money, he only hid the real financial situation from the shareholders.

The most famous thieves

In addition to well-known financial criminals, there are people who are the most notorious thieves. The five most famous include such a lawbreaker as Frank William Abagnale. He started playing with the law at the age of sixteen, standing out for his talent for impersonation. Frank had no trouble cashing and counterfeiting bank checks. Thanks to his work, the banks of the world suffered losses in the amount of several million dollars.

Poet Francois Villon is in fourth place among the most famous thieves in the world. Almost all of his works were created in a prison cell. Villon was engaged in robbing churches and large offices. Having committed theft, he always disappeared for a long time. This thief was caught several times, after the last theft, he disappeared again and nothing more is known about him.

In honorable third place is real estate manager Bill Mason, who traded in the theft of jewelry. He appropriated products from precious metals for a total of thirty-five million dollars. For the most part, he was interested in products from private collections of socialites and celebrities. When committing thefts, this criminal was attracted not so much by material gain as by the opportunity to get a thrill.

Doris Payne is considered the jewel of the underworld. She robbed expensive jewelry stores, never stooping to robberies. Doris tried on the most expensive jewelry, having time to charm the sellers with sweet conversations. Payne, possessing an incredible psychological gift, did not return some of the most expensive things after fitting, but took them out of the store. She did this for sixty years.

In the first place in the ranking of the most famous thieves is another thrill-seeker. It's about Alberto Spaggiari. He was a civilized man, the owner of a photo studio, but he became the most famous of the thieves and even went to prison. His biggest score is sixty million dollars. Alberto hired a whole team of professional assistants to dig a tunnel to the bank. The work was carried out in those days when the bank did not work. After committing this theft, Spaggiari was arrested, but he was able to escape.

Legendary Maniacs

Maniacs, to great regret and horror, have always existed in almost all countries. The crimes of each of them are incredible, however, among the maniacs there are legendary serial killers.

One of these is considered the “robber from the Alley”. That is how Richard Ramirez was nicknamed in the United States, who entered houses and killed all the people there. Another legendary maniac also acted in America. His name is "Zodiac". This killer has not been caught.

A homosexual with a huge number of victims, Henry Lee Lucas, was paired with Ottis Toole. He is also in the ranking of the most famous killer maniacs. In Belarus, murderers Gennady Mikhasevich committed murders, killing at least thirty women. American John Wayne Gacy was an outspoken homosexual who managed to amaze with the huge number of buried bodies in his house.

It is known about the Siberian Ripper, whose name is Alexander Spesivtsev. This mentally ill man ate several children. Helped the maniac in cutting up the corpses of his own mother. For several years in a row, pedophile Sergey Golovkin tortured and killed children in his garage. He was nicknamed "Boa Constrictor" and "Fischer".

Anatoly Slivko can be attributed to the number of legendary maniacs. He enjoyed polished black shoes, blood-stained pioneer uniforms, and the torture of children. It is impossible not to name Andrei Chikatilo. He is recognized as a forensic legend who long years killed and tortured people. The number of his victims is at least fifty-three people.

Among the legendary maniacs is Petro Alonso Lopez, who got into the Guinness Book of Records. .

The most famous criminal in the world

The most famous criminal in the world is Al Capone. This is the most brutal gangster of the last century, who committed the most high-profile crimes. He operated in Chicago in the 1920s and 1930s. By order of Capone, about four hundred people were killed, while he himself took the lives of forty people. Due to depravity and cruelty, his name is still a legend today.

The world's most notorious criminal ended up in jail in 1932 after being convicted of tax evasion. Al Capone died in prison in 1945 from pneumonia. His empire collapsed, and the "mountains" of gold disappeared without a trace.
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Pablo Escobar

Colombian drug lord Pablo Escobar became the first criminal to appear on the Forbes 100 International Billionaires list in 1987 with a net worth of $3 billion. He only dropped out after his death in 1993. From 1981 to 1986, the Medellin cartel led by Escobar had a revenue of $ 7 billion, the drug lord took 40% for himself. The cartel received its main wealth from cocaine smuggling in the United States (about 15 tons daily), in the late 1980s it owned 80% of the entire cocaine market in the world. According to Business Insider, Escobar earned $420 million a week, according to other sources, his fortune totaled more than $30 billion.

Each year, the king of cocaine lost about $2.1 billion (10% of revenue) as the money was randomly stored in warehouses and abandoned farms, it was destroyed by mold and rodents. Every month, he spent $2,500 on rubber bands that held bills together. Once Escobar burned $ 2 million to warm his daughter: the family then hid in the mountains, and there was nothing to kindle a fire from. In 1984, the cartel offered to pay off Colombia's national debt in exchange for immunity. The DEA placed a $11 million bounty on Escobar's head. In 1991, the drug lord made a deal with the Colombian government to build his own prison, La Catedral (with a football field and his chosen guards), to which the authorities could not approach closer than 5 km.

The life of a drug lord was so bright that in 2015 Netflix released the series Narcos dedicated to him.

Joaquin Guzman Loera

In 2009, the Mexican drug lord Joaquin Guzmán Loera, nicknamed "Shorty", was included in the Forbes list of the richest people on the planet with a fortune of $ 1 billion. In 2012 and 2013, he ranked 63rd and 67th among the most influential people in the world. Strategic Forecasting Inc. and even estimated his wealth at $ 12 billion. The Sinaloa cartel under the leadership of Loer was responsible for 25% of illegal drug trafficking from Mexico to the United States and received $ 3 billion in proceeds. The New York Times, citing data from the Drug Enforcement Administration, writes that the cartel sold more cocaine than Escobar at the height of his career.

"Shorty" started his business in the early 1990s, transporting cocaine, including in chili cans (in 1993, the Mexican authorities confiscated such a 7-ton cargo). He was named "Mexico's most wanted man" with a $7 million bounty: $5 million from the United States and another $2 million from Mexico. He was first arrested in 1993, but he escaped from prison in 2001. The last time Mexican intelligence agencies captured Loera in Sinaloa was in January 2016. Vanity killed the drug lord. He was going to make a biopic about himself and was casting. In addition, actor Sean Penn flew to "Shorty" to meet for an interview. It is believed that the authorities were able to track the movements of the criminal, including thanks to this.

Brothers Ochoa and Gonzalo Rodriguez Gacha

In 1987, along with Escobar, the co-founders of the Medellin cartel, Jorge Luis Ochoa-Vasquez (with an income of $ 2 billion) with brothers Juan David and Fabio, who received 30% of the cartel's revenue, were on the Forbes list of the richest. The Ochoa brothers remained on the Forbes list for another 6 years until they surrendered to the authorities.

The drug lord Gonzalo Rodriguez Gacha, who lived at the same time, worked both with the Medellin cartel and independently (for example, transporting cocaine disguised as flower supplies to the USA from Bogota) was also a billionaire. In 1988, Forbes estimated his fortune at $1.3 billion. Gacha stayed on the list for two years until he was shot dead by Colombian police.

Rafael Caro Quintero and Amado Carrillo Fuentes

Before the star of the drug lord "Shorty" rose in Mexico, two names thundered there - Rafael Caro Quintero (pictured) and Carrillo Fuentes. The head of the Guadalajara cartel, Rafael Quintero, owned marijuana plantations called Rancho Bufalo. During a 1984 police raid on the ranch, about 6,000 tons of marijuana were seized, which, according to The Wall Street Journal, cost Quintero between $3.2 billion and $8 billion. The Guadalajara cartel earned $5 billion a year. There were rumors in the Mexican press that Quintero followed Escobar in offering to pay off Mexico's external debt in exchange for his freedom. The drug lord was arrested in 1985, and in 1989 he was sentenced to 40 years in a Mexican prison (by that time he had already served 4 years). But 28 years later he was released.

The second Mexican drug lord is Carrillo Fuentes, head of the Juarez cartel. The Washington Post estimated his fortune at $25 billion. It is believed that wealth allowed him to avoid justice for many years. Fuentes earned the nickname "Lord of the Skies" for his extensive fleet (22 aircraft) to transport cocaine to the United States. Fuentes died in 1997 during plastic surgery to change his appearance.

Morris Dalitz

Moritz (Mo) Dalitz belonged to such legendary gangsters as Al Capone and Bugsy Siegel. During the era of Prohibition, he was engaged in bootlegging, later - gambling and real estate. In 1982, Dalitz was on the first Forbes richest list, along with artist Yoko Ono, actor Bob Hope, and mafia accountant Meyer Lansky. Dalitz's fortune was estimated at $110 million, but how much he actually earned remains a question.

Dalitz received a significant share of his wealth from the first casinos in Las Vegas. In 1949, he co-founded the Desert Inn casino and the Stardust Hotel. In the 1950s, he took part in the emergence of the Paradise Development Company, which built a university and a convention center in Las Vegas. In the 1960s, he invested in the $100 million complex La Costa Resort near San Diego, after which he sued Penthouse magazine for $640 million, which wrote that the construction was financed by the mafia. Unlike many colleagues in the criminal past, Dalitz lived to an old age, in last years did charity work.

Khun Sa, the “Opium King,” was estimated by Business Insider to be worth $5 billion. Born Chang Shifu, the son of a Chinese man and a Shan woman, changed his name to Khun Sa, meaning “Prosperous Prince,” in the 1960s. During these years, he led the Burmese army, engaged in the cultivation of opium in the Golden Triangle of Southeast Asia, which included 20,000 men. In the 1970s and 80s, the Sa army controlled the Thai-Burmese border and was responsible for 45% of the pure heroin entering the United States, for which the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) called him "the best in the business" (data from The Economist).

The US government placed a $2 million bounty on the head of the Opium King. By the 1990s, the DEA was able to destroy Sa's trade chain, and he moved to Yangon and retired. Currently, opium production in the Golden Triangle has fallen to 5% of the world figure (in 1975 it was 70%).

There are different versions about whether the drug lord saved billions before his death in 2007 - from "lived in luxury" to "satisfied with a modest pension."

Griselda Blanco

The Colombian Griselda Blanco was called the "Godmother of cocaine" by the Western press. Blanco was one of the key figures in the Miami cocaine trade in the 1970s and 1980s. Even in the male drug business, she had a reputation for being a ruthless businessman. According to Business Insider, her fortune was approaching $2 billion, however, she was far from Exobar's income.

Three times a widow, whose spouses were rumored to have died at her hands, she named one of her sons Michael Corleone. According to The Guardian, its distribution network was making tens of millions of dollars and moving around 1,500 kilos of cocaine per month. Prior to his arrest in 1985 in California " Godmother”appeared on the list of the most dangerous drug dealers along with Escobar and the Ochoa brothers. She was charged with 40 to 200 murders in Florida, but the woman managed to avoid the death penalty due to a technical error in court: the officer who testified against her was discredited because he had a sex conversation on the phone with a secretary in the accuser's office, the Guardian wrote. Blanco was imprisoned in federal prison, deported to Colombia in 2004, where 8 years later she was shot by an assassin on a motorcycle.

Al Capone

Capone is the most famous American gangster. A character named Al Capone appears in 77 mafia films.

At the time of his death in 1947, his fortune was estimated at $ 1.3 billion. Capone acted in various criminal areas - bootlegging, racketeering, murder. In 1929, the US government declared him "Enemy No. 1". The prosecutor's office repeatedly sentenced Capone to prison, but a few months later he was released. As a result, in 1931, Capone was convicted only for tax evasion - for 11 years. He was supposed to spend most of his term in Alcatraz.

In 1939, Capone was released, but his health was undermined - he suffered from syphilis and dementia.

In 2012, Forbes conducted an analysis of Capone's former property. The Chicago four-bedroom house he bought with his first earnings was valued at $450,000, and the Miami Beach mansion where he died in 1947 was valued at $9.95 million.

Dawood Ibrahim Kaskar

The income of India's most wanted criminal is estimated by Business Insider at $ 6.7 billion. Forbes included Cascar in the lists of the most influential people in the world in 2009, 2010 and 2011 (50, 63 and 57, respectively). His crime syndicate D-Company is accused of terrorist attacks in Mumbai in 1993 and 2008, in addition, he was involved in the smuggling of drugs and weapons. The US government believes that Dawood Ibrahim Kaskar is linked to al-Qaeda and the Taliban. According to one version, Kaskar is hiding in Pakistan.

Anthony Salerno

In 1986, Fortune magazine published a list of "The 50 Most Powerful Mafia Bosses". The editor-in-chief explained the appearance of the material by the fact that "organized crime is a powerful economic factor." Anthony "Fat Tony" Salerno also made the list. The Genovese clan, led by a gangster (300 people), was engaged in racketeering and drugs in New York. According to The New York Times, the clan's influence extended as far as Cleveland, Nevada, and Miami, with interests in construction, loansharking, and casinos. Since the 1960s, the clan has earned $50 million a year. Between 1981 and 1985, Salerno imposed a 2% Mafia tax in New York on all contractors pouring concrete on buildings worth more than $2 million. Salerno's net worth may have been $1 billion.

In 1988, the gangster was sentenced to 70 years for racketeering and hiding illegal income of $10 million a year (only $40,000 a year was indicated in the declaration). Four years later, at the age of 80, he died in prison.

Michael Franzese

In Fortune's "50 Most Powerful Mafia Bosses" list, Michael Franzese was ranked 18th. Franzese, nicknamed "Don Yuppie", is the son of a bank robber who made a cartel that was engaged in the release of films of category B, illegal sale of gasoline, car repair and sale scams, and fraudulent loans.

Michael Franzese earned between $1 million and $2 million a week. In 1985, the US government charged him with fraud, stripped him of $4.8 million of assets, and ordered him to pay $10 million for the illegal sale of gasoline through shell companies. After eight years in prison and a $15 million payment, Franzez moved to California and decided to capitalize on his criminal past. He has written two books, the autobiography Blood Covenant and the business advice book I'll Make You An Offer You Can't Refuse, as well as sold the rights to a miniseries about his life to CBS. Now the former mobster lives in a $2.7 million home, drives a Porsche, gives interviews to Vanity Fair and lectures at universities.

Shinobu Tsukasa

Shinobu Tsukasa, 74, leads a yakuza clan called the Yamaguchi-gumi. Fortune has listed the yamaguchi-gumi as one of the five most powerful mafia groups in the world, with an annual profit of $6.6 billion. The Yamaguchi was founded in the port city of Kobe over 100 years ago and has 23,400 members. Most of the income comes from the sale of drugs, as well as gambling and extortion.

Shinobu Tsukasa is the sixth leader of the clan in history. In the 1970s, he was sentenced to 13 years for murder with a samurai sword. In 2005, he was jailed for 6 years for possession firearms. In 2015, there was a split in the yamaguchi-gumi. According to the Tokyo Reporter, most of the group remained with Tsukasa, and 3,000 members formed a new clan led by Kunio Inoue.

John Gotti

New York Gambino boss John Gotti has received two nicknames from the press. "Teflon Don" - for being invulnerable to justice for a long time. As well as "Don-dandy" - for expensive suits to order (Brioni for $2000 and hand-painted silk scarves for $400), elaborate hair, black Mercedes 450 SL and lavish parties.

Growing up in the South Bronx, Gotti joined the Gambino family in the 1950s, one of the powerful gambling, extortion, loansharking and drug syndicates. The US government suspected that on the way to the post of head of the Gambino, Gotti eliminated his predecessor Paul Castellano in 1985. The FBI agent who worked on the Gotti case said that "he was the first don for the media, he never tried to hide that he was a superboss." And his wide lifestyle and external gloss has always provided food for articles in the tabloids.

According to the New York Times, Gotti was making between $10 million and $12 million annually, while the Gambino clan made over $500 million a year in the 1980s. Justice got to Gotti only in 1992, 10 years later he died in prison.

Young people who easily manage millions of dollars just as easily come into conflict with the law. Many of them feel that the rules are not written for them, and light speeding, drug use or violent behavior are just small pranks that they will be “forgiven” in court. Who are these majors who attracted the attention of the public and were punished with real fines, prison terms and corrective labor?

Paris Hilton

The heiress of the founder of a huge hotel empire knows how to be a bad girl not only in reality shows and movies, but also in life. The fame did not benefit her reputation and even led her to jail, where Paris spent 45 days. The reason for this was her driving without a license, which was previously taken away for driving while intoxicated.

For the first time, my father's millions allowed Paris Hilton to remain at large. She paid a $1,500 fine and served 36 months of probation. A few years later, Hilton was again arrested in South Africa: this time for marijuana, which she brought to the Brazil-Holland football match. Not very far-sighted of her!

Martin Shkreli

Martin is a well-known American businessman of Albanian origin. Despite his young age, he managed to get two outstanding statuses at once: a rich man (he became one thanks to the construction of financial pyramids) and the most despised person in the world.

The editors of the site clarifies that the case was in his speculation on the cost of drugs, for which he went straight to court. In addition, he was charged with securities fraud, and a little later, Shkreli was arrested for posts on Facebook, where he unsuccessfully joked about Hillary Clinton during her struggle for the presidency of the United States.

Raffaello Foglieri

Charming, young and dangerous - this is how Raffaello Folleri can be described, who managed to get the heart of actress Anne Hathaway at one time. The girl fell in love recklessly, and Raffaello used her feelings for selfish purposes. Far from being poor, the Italian splurges and strives to appear like a good-natured rich man, buying jewelry and organizing luxury cruises.

Posing as a Vatican real estate expert, he raised investments in non-existent properties and fraudulently took possession of several hundred million dollars. For which he paid the price - he ended up in prison for 4.5 years. Hathaway, who knew nothing about the "dark" affairs of her boyfriend, was shocked by what was happening and could not get over the shock for a long time. Later, she met a worthy man and gave birth to a daughter from him.

Yorgos Vakakis

The son and main heir of the Greek millionaire - the owner of the Jumbo supermarket chain - became famous thanks to the sad event that took the life of a young woman with a child. Jogors, driving his expensive Porsche car on the Athens-Lamia motorway, was rushing at great speed.

Losing control, he crashed into a car parked in a parking lot, and then broke through the wall of a nearby building. Young people - and Jogors was in a car with a friend - died on the spot, like their victims. But everything could have ended differently if Vakakis had followed the rules of the road!

Kazimbek Batyrov

Kazimbek Batyrov is an experienced street racer and part-time son of the millionaire Ashtar Batyrov, who owns the Batyr chicken breeding company, one of the largest in the Russian Federation. According to unofficial data, the major owns at least five luxury cars.

On one of them - a chic Ferrari - Batyrov Jr. arranged a race through the streets of Moscow, in places accelerating to 288 km / h. Over the past few years, he has been issued more than 80 tickets, including for drunk driving. He was deprived of his driver's license for two years, but this did not stop him from further reckless driving, threatening the lives of other road users.

Jaycee Chan

Jackie Chan is one of the twenty highest paid actors in the world according to Forbes. He owns a fortune of 350 million US dollars. Not surprisingly, his son leads a luxurious and not always legal lifestyle. Jaycee Chan was caught in possession and use of marijuana - about 10 grams of this prohibited substance was found in his home.

Initially, they wanted to sentence the young man to three years, but the final sentence turned out to be more lenient. Jaycee paid a large fine and spent only six months behind bars. The father did not try to “buy back” his son, as he considered the punishment well deserved.

Adam Jones

Football fans know Adam Jones as a young and promising player who played for Sunderland and England. His contracts included figures of several million pounds, but young man I wanted more thrills that had nothing to do with big money. The editorial office of find out.rf notes that Jones could well have been included in the rating of famous athletes who had trouble with the law.

Johnson was detained, and then sentenced to 6 years for having an affair with an underage girl - his fan. Numerous appeals have yielded nothing, and the position of the football player in prison is further aggravated by the fact that cellmates regularly threaten his life and health. Once he was even stabbed in the shower.

Nick Hogan

Nick Hogan is known as the son of wrestling star and film actor Hulk Hogan. Nick is happy to spend his father's money on a very expensive hobby - participation in professional drift competitions. Every next expensive car is bought by him for only one purpose: to crash it in forbidden street races.

He has been receiving speeding tickets regularly since the age of 16. However, Nick is not upset and even says in an interview that sometimes he exceeded the permissible speed limit three times. Once, careless drunk driving provoked a serious accident.

Both the culprit and the victim survived, but the former had to go to trial. As a result, Nick spent 500 hours on community service, lost his driver's license for 3 years and served nothing in prison - 166 days (the major was released for exemplary behavior).

Trouble with the law occurs more often in men than in women - such is the statistics. However, among the beautiful half of humanity there are many who are ready for a crime. We invite you to read about famous women who have had problems with the law.
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Henry Ford once said: “I am ready to account now for every cent I earn. But don't ask me where I got my first million." In this post, we would like to talk about people who did not limit themselves to a dishonest million. About criminals who made billions on financial fraud, illegal trade and gambling

10. Joseph Kennedy ($ 200-400 million) - the head of the clan

The Kennedy clan has been one of the most influential in the United States for the past century, both in the political arena and in the closely related business area. And Joseph made a significant contribution to this. He was the father of US President John F. Kennedy, United States Senator and Attorney General Robert Kennedy, Senator Edward Kennedy, Navy Officer Joseph P. Kennedy Jr.

The head of the family earned his fortune thanks to the illegal trade in alcohol during Prohibition. Then, he bought and sold land and real estate, speculated on stock exchange. At twenty-five, he was already head of a bank, and at thirty-five he became a multimillionaire. At one time, Joseph also married Rose Fitzgerald, the daughter of the mayor of Boston, by calculation, but this did not prevent him from keeping several mistresses at the same time.

9. Meir Lansky ($300-400 million) is a mafia accountant from Belarus

Meir Lansky was born into a Jewish family in the city of Grodno (on the territory of modern Belarus). At the age of 9, he and his parents migrated to the United States, where he changed his last name from Sukhomlyansky to a more sonorous one - Lansky.

Meir is known as the "mafia accountant", one of the leaders of American organized crime, along with his friend and partner Charles "Lucky" Luciano, was instrumental in the creation of the "National Crime Syndicate" in the United States. For decades, he was considered one of the most powerful people in the country.

8. Gricedla Blanco ($500 million) - godmother

Miami's "godmother" Grisedla Blanco was arguably America's most ruthless gangster in the 1970s and 80s. Equally known as a person with good business intuition and as a ruthless sociopath. At the age of 11, she took a small child hostage, demanded a ransom for him, and eventually killed him with a shot in the head. Blanco is also suspected of having taken the lives of her three husbands, sentenced more than 200 people to death, and forced men to have sex with her at gunpoint.

In the mid-2000s, Grisedla is hiding, she was last seen in 2007, after which the trail disappeared

7. Anthony Salerno ($500 million) - gangster in pajamas

Anthony "Fat Tony" Salerno stood out from the crowd very well with his signature hat and cigar. He began his journey to the top of the Genovese family hierarchy with gambling, loansharking and racketeering. And already in the 60s, his New York empire brought up to $ 50 million in profit

Salerno is also well remembered for sending cards to business associates at Christmas with his image in pajamas.

In 1987, Tony received 100 years in prison, after which he soon died there.

6. Joaquin Loera ($1 billion) is outlaw number 1

Joaquin "Shorty" Loera was born on April 4, 1957 to a poor family. As a child, his father kicked him out of the house due to "disrespectful attitude towards parents", so it is not surprising that the child did not receive any education and joined the ranks of drug dealers.

The strength of the Joaquin-led Sinaloa cartel can only be judged by the fact that they use their own submarines to smuggle drugs from Mexico to the United States.

Today, the Mexican billionaire is ranked 24th in the ranking of the most influential people in the world, and after the assassination of Osama bin Laden by the US military, he also became the most wanted criminal in the world according to Forbes.

5. Al Capone (1.3 billion) - Scarface

Young Alfonso very early faced the need to earn his own living: like others of his peers, he could only qualify for a hard, low-paid job, devoid of all prospects. By the sixth grade, Alfonso had already become a full member of the gang and, along with everyone else, patrolled the streets of his native district.

Capone, who dropped out of school, tried a wide variety of professions for two years, having worked as a bouncer, in a bowling alley, in a pharmacy, and even in a candy store, but he was more and more attracted to the nocturnal lifestyle. So, for example, having become addicted to playing billiards, he won absolutely all the tournaments held in Brooklyn during the year.

As a teenager, Capone left NY and moved to Chicago. Here he soon exterminated the Irish gangs ruling at that time, killing more than 500 people in 1924-1929 alone. Also widely known is the story of how on St. On Valentine's Day 1929, members of the Capone gang, dressed as Chicago cops, broke into the garage where Alfonso's rival Moran gang had set up a bootleg whiskey warehouse. Moran's men, taken by surprise, raised their hands in the air, convinced of the authenticity of the policemen. They obediently lined up against the wall, but instead of the expected search, shots rang out.

Capone jailed for tax evasion

4. Susumu Ishi (1.5 billion) - Japanese idol

statuary Godfather Yakuza Susumu Ishi was a member of the kamikaze unit during World War II, but after returning from the front alive, he began his journey as a gangster. Susumu earned his initial capital on gambling scams, for which he soon sat down. When released, Ishi waited new opportunity. In 1984, the Japanese economy was under the influence of a soap bubble, so the gangster quickly amassed $ 1.5 billion through fraud in the banking sector, which he then invested in the United States and Korea.

The fact that in 1989 it even hired Prescott Bush, the brother of George W. Bush, speaks about the financial strength of the billionaire corporation.

1991 Susumu Ishi died. More than 5,000 people attended his funeral.

3. Carlos Leider ($2.7 billion) - King of the Bahamas

One of the founders of the Medellin cartel, Carlos Leider, is currently the only officially living member from our list (some are hiding, the death of others is doubtful). At the present time, the drug lord is in an American prison, serving a life sentence without the right to release.

In his day, Leider ran an entire island in the Bahamas, a nexus between Colombian cocaine and the United States. At a distance of 200 kilometers from Florida there were hotels, marinas and even an airport. Passing off his activities as the implementation of a major tourism project, Carlos actually turned the island into a fortress. Around the warning boards, high watch tower, alarm and electronic system security. In case someone still dares to sneak in, there is a kennel and bodyguards with machine guns.

2. Pablo Escobar ($25 billion) - Almost President

At the beginning of his "career" Pablo was engaged in racketeering, kidnapping cars and people. But Escobar, of course, earned the main wealth on the drug trade, leading the largest Medellin cocaine cartel in history. In the late 1970s, the empire controlled 80% of all US drugs.

With such financial power, the billionaire built entire blocks in his native Medellin, realizing that the support of the population would be able to protect him in the fight against the authorities. Once, even a drug dealer ran for the presidency of Colombia, and he could well have entered the top 10 richest presidents in the world, if he had not lost the election due to criticism and accusations of the Minister of Justice in "dirty cocaine money". Soon the minister was shot in his own car

Killing politicians and deputies, Escobar did not worry about the lives of other citizens. So once, while swinging at the then presidential candidate Luis Golan, the drug lord blew up a plane with 107 people on it. All passengers died

At one time, Pablo even offered to pay off Colombia's entire foreign debt ($10 billion) if it legalizes coca. The US authorities, in response to such a statement, threatened Colombia with war if it agreed to the proposal.

Escobar was killed in 1993 by a sniper in the head, during the operation of the authorities

1. Amado Fuentes ($25 billion) - lord of the skies

Amado Fuentes on this moment is the richest criminal in history. The Juarez cartel he led in the mid-1990s provided 25% of the total US drug trafficking. The billionaire had at his disposal 27 Boeing 727 aircraft designed to transport drugs, for which he was even called the master of heaven.

Amado died as a result of an unsuccessful operation to change his appearance in 1997. At a time when the Fuentes empire grew exponentially, increasing its momentum every day. It is this fact that haunts many analysts and journalists who claim that the operation went exactly as it was intended.

To become a millionaire, you need to go to your goal with the help of the mind, and in no case get involved with crime. This is what parents, relatives and close people teach us. What if not? Authoritative criminals who have obtained millions of money through their criminal acts, sooner or later end up in prison. But who are they?

Frank Lucas

This is the most famous drug dealer in the world, who managed to earn 52 million dollars. He did his dirty work with the help of the corpses of American soldiers - he transported heroin to the United States in the very coffins of the dead. Despite his huge profits, he spent only 12 years in prison. In 2007, Lucas' life story was portrayed in the epic film American Gangster.

Jose Figueroa Agosto

The activity of this guy was also related to drugs. He carried out his machinations in Puerto Rico and earned $100 million. He was arrested several times: in 2009 and 2010.

George Young

This man was also called Boston George because of his origin - from Boston. In the 80s, he transported cocaine to America, for which he was arrested and sentenced to twenty years in prison. His occupation brought 100 million dollars.

Nicky Barnes

Nicky Barnes or Mr. Untouchable made $105 million from drugs. Initially, he went to prison, as he was caught using drugs. After his release, he decided to continue his heroin business, but this time as a trafficker. In this way, he earned a lot of money and now, when he is 81 years old, he feels great.

Pavel Lir Alexander

El Loco Parito or simply Alexander is a true businessman. He worked very interestingly: he controlled the supply of cocaine to the United States and at the same time helped the government catch other smugglers. In this way, he accumulated $170 million, for which he was sentenced to 12 years in the United States, and after the end of the line he was sent to his homeland - to Brazil, where he was sentenced to another 42 years in prison. It is also interesting that in 2011 he would have been released into the wild, but he managed to escape earlier and has not yet been found.

Zhenli Ye Gon

This person was involved in the sale of drugs to pharmaceutical companies in Mexico, under the guise of pseudoephedrine. Active in Mexico, Hong Kong and the US, he has already earned over $200 million.

Joseph Kennedy

It is one of the most influential politicians in the US and a great businessman. He was involved in the illegal trade of alcohol and all this during Prohibition. He also bought and sold real estate, was the head of a bank, and at the age of 35 he had already become a multimillionaire.

Ricky Ross

Ricky distributed cocaine in the 80s, earned $ 600 million from this. In 1996 he was convicted, and in 2009 he was released. In 2014, he published an interesting book about the history of his life.

Rafael Quintero Caro

Rafael, together with his brother, organized the Guadalajara cartel, this is in Mexico. He was sentenced to 40 years, but not for drugs, but for numerous murders. However, he made $600 million from this dirty business.

Joaquin Guzman Loera

Forbes magazine in 2009 recognized Loher as the most powerful person in the world. This drug lord was arrested in 1993 and escaped in 2001 by bribing prison guards. In 2014, he was arrested again in Mexico.

Al Capone

worldwide famous gangster who was arrested for tax evasion. He was sentenced to 11 years in prison, but served only 8, dying due to a stroke.

Griselda Blanco

The only woman (Black Widow) on this list to earn $2 billion. In Colombia, she controlled a huge flow of cocaine, in 2012 she was shot dead by a drug trafficker.

Carlos Leder

Founding member of the cartel in Colombia. He was smuggling cocaine from South Florida to Colombia. Earned $2.7 billion but is still incarcerated.

Brothers Rodriguez Orejuela

They formed their own Kali cartel and made $3 billion in profits. Initially engaged in the smuggling of marijuana, then cocaine. They were arrested in 1995 and are still imprisoned in the United States.

Jose Rodriguez Gonzalo

Member of Medellin, managed to earn 5 billion dollars. Killed more than 20 people and committed lynching using a grenade. Interestingly, about a thousand people came to the funeral of this most terrible person.

Hong Sa

Engaged in drugs and weapons trafficking. Organized his own army to participate in civil war and appropriated 5 billion dollars.

Ochoa brothers

Juan David, Jorge Luis and Fabio Ochoa originally started their business by opening a restaurant. Then they mastered the drug business, embezzling $6 billion. Now they are already free.

Amado Carrillo Fuentes

Became the leader of the cartel by killing his boss Juarez. Delivering cocaine from Colombia to Mexico, earned $ 25 billion. To avoid being found, he changed his appearance with the help of plastic surgeons.

Daoud Ibrahim Kaskar

This man organized terrorist operations, sold drugs and weapons. Having earned 6.7 billion dollars, he is still on the wanted list.