The mystery behind the 600 million dollars that a farmer found in his land and that would be from Pablo Escobar

José Mariena Cartolos, a man who was 65 in 2015, found almost 600 million dollars in his land. Quickly, he cycled the theory that They would be from Pablo Escobar, the Colombian drug trafficker who became one of the most powerful criminal figures in the world. After the finding, the farmer decided to alert the authorities of the country without knowing what would happen later.

It all started when cartolos dug in his field to install an irrigation system where he planned to start a palm oil plantation after Receive a governor 3000 subsidy Colombian. It was there that he found himself in an unexpected situation: discovered blue containers that were full of cash. When he warned the authorities, it was reported that this silver would be part of the fortune of 30 billion dollars of Pablo Escobar, which would be buried throughout the country.

The containers kept plastic wrapped cash to protect it from moisture. Inside the barrels there were huge $ 100 bills that, as calculated, added more than 500 million dollars.

The Colombian government intervened and confiscated the entire money from drug trafficking, which was transferred to official custody. Soon, it was said that this sum would be destined for social programs, infrastructure and community projects In order to benefit the population and partially repair the damage caused by organized crime.

Is that Escobar was the leader of the Medellín cartel and, since 1980, controlled much of cocaine traffic to the United States and other countries, and He accumulated a great fortune of money that led him to be considered one of the richest men in the world then. So much so that he built a private zoo at home with a huge collection of exotic animals. From there, for example, a total of 169 hippos were born, from the original population of a male and three females.

His influence extended to politics, society and popular culture, since murdered people indiscriminately and performed acts of extreme violence as attacks. Everything he did deeply marked Colombia’s recent history, and his figure to this day is the object of controversy, a mixture of myth, fear and fascination.

At present, it is not known with certainty if there are still large sums of money from drug trafficking buried or hidden in different parts of Colombia. This enigma fed stories and searches for decades. The finding of José Mariena Cartolos was one of those who made it think that, at any time, another person could stumble upon a similar loot.