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\nA nephew of the notorious drug lord Pablo Escobar said that he has found a plastic bag full of money, worth $18 million, in the wall of one of his uncle\u2019s houses. Nicolas Escobar told Colombian media that \u201ca vision\u201d led him to search the house in his uncle\u2019s home city of Medellin. Several sightings of a mysterious man entering the house and disappearing also prompted him to look through the building.
\n\u201cEvery time I sat in the dining room and looked towards the car park, I saw a man entering the place and disappearing,\u201d Mr Escobar told a Colombian TV channel.
\n\u201cThe smell was astonishing \u2013 a smell 100 times worse than something that had died.\u201d Some of the bank notes were unusable, having decayed in the wall for many years. Mr Escobar said he also found a typewriter, satellite phones, gold pen, a camera and an undeveloped roll of film, which could provide fascinating new insights into the narco\u2019s life. It was not the first time Mr Escobar had found hidden money in his uncle\u2019s houses.
\nThe drug baron, who led the Medellin Cartel that at one time provided America with 80 percent of its cocaine, is thought to have hidden millions of dollars in his city hideouts. At the height of his wealth, Forbes estimated Pablo Escobar to have been the seventh richest person in the world.
\nThe \u201cKing of Cocaine\u201d even ran for president once, but was unsuccessful. Colombian police killed him in a rooftop shootout in 1993. At the time, he had amassed an estimated net worth of $30 billion, equal to $59bn today.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
TLTP MEDELLIN A nephew of the notorious drug lord Pablo Escobar said that he has found a plastic bag full of money, worth $18 million, in the wall of one of his uncle\u2019s houses. Nicolas Escobar told Colombian media that \u201ca vision\u201d led him to search the house in his uncle\u2019s home city of Medellin. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":146658,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-146646","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-world"],"yoast_head":"\n