A college education, passion, drive, determination and belief that you will succeed are said to be what you need to become a millionaire or even a billionaire. For the world’s billionaires, it was a simple idea and a crazy notion that they could actually do it. The same goes for many of the world’s wealthiest and most successful businessmen and women. The road, the journey to success, was long, hard and arduous.
But who wants to bother with that when you can get into the life of crime and actually make just as much money as some of the world’s wealthiest people without actually paying taxes on your money. Normal people with integrity and work ethic and morals abide by the law, but those are not the kind of people we are talking about right now. We are talking about the world’s wealthiest criminals. They got rich the illegal way, and they are probably quite proud of that.
The payoffs from criminal activities are quite massive. Don’t they say the higher the risk, the higher the return? These criminals have made their money through drug trafficking, human trafficking, money laundering, tax evasion, among other crimes. While we recommend using the legal ways of getting rich, these men and women are a bit outside the box (and the legal lines) when it comes to making money, and it worked for them (save for the prison sentences and other minor details).
Here are the top 10 richest criminals in the world.
| Rank | Name | Crime | Net Worth |
| 1. | Carlos Lehder | Former drug lord and co-founder of the Medellín cartel | $2.7 billion |
| 2. | Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán Loera | Former drug lord and leader of the Sinaloa cartel | $1 billion |
| 3. | Jho Low | Mastermind of the 1MDB scandal | $150 million |
| 4. | Big Meech | Former drug dealer | $100 million |
| 5. | Rayful Edmond | Former drug kingpin | $50 million |
| 6. | Ephren Taylor | Ponzi scheme fraudster | $10 million |
| 7. | Frank Abagnale | Former conman, check forger and imposter | $10 million |
| 8. | John Gotti Jr. | Former mobster and boss of the Gambino crime family | $10 million |
| 9. | Freeway Rick Ross | Former drug trafficker | $1 million |
| 10. | Hector “Junior” Pagan | Former associate of the Bannano crime family | $1 million |
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Point of correction. Its officially listed criminals We have unofficial rich criminals like some Kenyan politicians.
Where does most of them come from?
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this is so inaccurate lol, tse che lop has much more than 8 billion, semion mogilevich has 10 billion pablo escobar had 60 billion, the ndrangheta make 60 billion a year i can go on and on, atleast try to do some research before writing this is worse than watch mojo
The information on this article is indepthly verified. What you are suggesting are baseless imagined figures from tabloids and gossip blogs.