A Thread of some of
THE SMARTEST CRIMINALS IN HISTORY
1 PABLO ESCOBAR :
When Escobar was born in 1949 in Antioquia, Colombia. His mother was a School Teacher and his father was a Farmer.
Pablo was ambitious from the beginning, and he used to tell his friends that he would be a millionaire by the time he was 22. By the 1980s……….Escobar controlled 80% of the cocaine traffic going into the US. The cartel moved 70 to 80 tons of cocaine into the country per month. At the height of his reign, Pablo Escobar was making around $420 million each week………Escobar spent roughly $2,500 a month on rubber bands for his cash. From 1987 until 1993, Escobar made the Forbes list of international billionaires. In 1989, he ranked as the seventh-richest man in the world.
2 BERNIE MADOFF:
was an American fraudster and financier who was the mastermind of the largest Ponzi scheme in history, worth about $64.8 billion When the FBI finally uncovered the fraud in 2008, losses by Madoff’s investors were over $50 billion over the course of nearly 20 years
3 EMMANUEL NWUDE :
Emmanuel Nwude a former Director of Union Bank of Nigeria successfully defrauded a Director at Brazil’s Banco Noroeste based in Sao Paulo, Mr. Nelson Sakaguchi, and sold a fake airport for $242 million.
Mr. Nwude impersonated Paul Ogwuma……..the then Governor of the Central bank of Nigeria, and convinced Mr. Sakaguchi to invest in a new airport in the nation’s capital, Abuja in exchange for a 10 million commission.
The crime occurred in 1995 and wasn’t discovered until 1998.
4 MARK DeFRIEST :
He is the most talented jailbreak master in history!
At the age of 19, he was imprisoned and became a nightmare for all prison guards in the United States. In 35 years of prison life, he was tortured by prison guards and bullied by prisoners. He escaped………13 times and succeeded 7 times. The most unimaginable thing is that his initial sentence was only four years. But because he always escaped from jail, the final sentence was increased to 105 years.
5 VICTOR LUSTIG:
The man who sold the el tower twice. It is believed to be the biggest scam in the world story that a con man pulled off. The book Handsome Devil is inspired by Victor Lustig’s life. He was considered the most flamboyant and daring con man…………. It was 1925 and Victor Lustig was sitting in his Paris hotel room reading a newspaper article about the Eiffel Tower and how the government was having difficulty finding the funds for its maintenance. This gave the idea to Victor to SELL IT. And he did, Twice.
6 FRANK WILLIAM ABAGNALE JR :
He carried out his criminal activities between the ages of 16 and 21. Within this period, he forged his driver’s license to seem ten years older and then opened several bank accounts using different identities. To remove suspicion while……….cashing his forged checks, he decided to become a pilot. He forged a pilot’s license and an employee ID.
He forged $2.5 million worth of bank checks across 26 countries he had flown to as a pilot.
Shortly after he stopped working as a pilot he moved to Georgia where he……….became a pediatrician. He quit after he almost killed a baby. He then moved on to work as a lawyer claiming to have graduated from Harvard. When he was arrested in 1969 twelve countries sought his extradition…..While he was in prison he posed as an undercover inspector and this made him receive special treatments.
He is the inspiration for the movie “Catch Me if you can” .
7 NATWARLAL:
Mithilesh Kumar Srivastava was a lawyer who turned into the ‘great Indian con man. He sold prized monuments of India and duped big-shot industrialists with sheer ease. He sold the Taj Mahal thrice!
……. ….. and even the Parliament House of India (along with its 545 sitting members) to gullible foreigners by posing as a government official. He was arrested as many as 9 times but each time he managed to break away. He even faked his death twice.
8 EL CHAPO :
Joaquín Archivaldo Guzmán Loera commonly known as “El Chapo” escaped a highly secured prison not once but twice successfully. On charges of Murder, kidnapping, and drug trafficking, he was arrested for 20 years in 1993 and kept in a Mexico jail. …As he became very rich by his cartel’s success he bribed about 2.5 million to the prison officers and easily escaped on 19 January 2001.
He was arrested again on 22nd February 1944. This time he was kept in a very isolated prison and did not get any luxuries…….To escape this time his men bought land about 0.7 miles away from the prison and started to construct a tunnel to El Chapo’s prison’s bath area….. On 11 July 2015 at 9 pm El Chapo was seen going towards the bath area and soon vanished .
