Drug Kingpin El Chapo Who Created a $12.6 Billion Empire, Now Complains of Discrimination in Jail

Aug 17, 2023

By: Deep Das Barman

Fueled by drugs and guns, El Chapo's empire was worth billions

Joaquin Guzmán Loera aka El Chapo, former Mexican drug kingpin who established the infamous Sinaloa Drug Cartel, is reported a billionaire. Chapo is serving a life sentence in a maximum security prison in Colorado. Recently he wrote a letter to the New York Ju...

El Chapo’s net worth is still in the billions

For almost 30 years, El Chapo sold drugs to build a massive fortune, even making it onto the Forbes list of billionaires four times, from 2009 to 2012. Although his drug empire was once worth $12.6 billion, according to Celebrity Net Worth, his current net wor...

El Chapo’s earnings from drug trafficking

As per a 2019 court filing, the federal prosecutors who convicted El Chapo put an actual estimate on his earnings, calculating the total amount, CNN reported. Prosecutors revealed that El Chapo's cartel handled nearly $11 billion worth of cocaine (600,000...

El Chapo’s Assets

In his reign as one of the most powerful drug lords, Chapo made millions which he spent recklessly on passion projects and other luxury items. Chapo reportedly bought a pair of yachts, and a fleet of jets, and built a private zoo that had tigers, crocodiles, a...

Properties seized and auctioned

The total assets of El Chapo are still unknown. However, after his arrest, the Mexican government confiscated six homes out of which three were sold at an auction in 2019. Even though each property was expected to fetch $1 million or more the homes ultimately ...

Details of assets given by witness testimonies

El Chapo reportedly owns multiple beach houses, including a $10 million property in Acapulco, as per a witness testimony, by his former manager, Miguel Angel Martinez, The New York Post reported. According to Martinez, he has splurged on a zoo, four planes, a ...

El Chapo’s Diamond Encrusted Pistol

Chapo frequently boasted about his obsession with guns, according to another witness testimony by “El Rey” Zambada, a former lieutenant in Chapo’s cartel, CBS News reported. The drug lord’s favorite weapon was a blinged-out .38-caliber pistol engraved with his...