How Much Times Did El Chapo Escape
Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman can’t be tied down – he’s wealthy, clever, and not above breaking the law to get what he wants.
El Chapo managed to escape twice from maximum security prisons, always using the tool of bribery, but with an imaginative level that went beyond the norm. Escobar, on the other hand, managed to escape from prison once, but more than a prison, it was considered a vacation hotel that he. Mexican drug kingpin Joaquin Guzman Loera, better known as 'El Chapo,' was sentenced to life in prison Wednesday in U.S. District Court in Brooklyn, New York, and must forfeit $12.6 billion.Guzman. January 8, 2016 2:55 PM EST D rug lord Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman has been recaptured seven months after he escaped from prison, Mexican authorities announced Friday. But this isn’t the first time.
El Chapo Escapes Prison
The drug lord put all of those handy qualities to use when he escaped from maximum security prison in Mexico a second time earlier this year. All his great escape took was a little finesse and an estimated $50 million, which is obviously nothing to El Chapo, who first made Forbes’ Billionaire Club almost a decade ago.
As fascination with the most elusive criminal in the world grows, authorities have learned that El Chapo had a lot of help disappearing from Altiplano prison. We’ve also learned more about the mile-long tunnel he took to escape, and the plot’s full cost breakdown.
From Yahoo Finance:
At the helm of the highly lucrative Sinaloa cartel, Guzmán is estimated to have a fortune exceeding $1 billion, and he reportedly paid $3 million to escape from another maximum-security prison in 2001.
His most recent prison break, through a custom-built, mile-long tunnel equipped with ventilation, lighting, and a motorcycle built on rails, and with an exit disguised by an unfinished home, is estimated to have cost Guzmán $50 million, when bribes to prison employees and government officials are included, said Pablo Escobar’s top hit man, Jhon Jairo Velasquez Vasquez.
The site notes the exact costs cannot be confirmed, as it was a black market arrangement:
As with all drug-related finances, the true value of Guzmán’s escape has not been quantified or verified.
“Listen, it’s a black market for these things,” Walter Lopez, president of the College of Civil Engineers in Sinaloa, told The New York Times in reference to the cost of the escape. “Getting it exact is impossible,” Lopez said.
Authorities do believe they’ve got the exact costs for certain elements, however, including the construction of the house he escaped to ($24,320 or 400,000 pesos), the land the house was built on ($91,200 or 1.5 million pesos), and the pilot who flew the decoy plane ($10,340 or 170,000 pesos).
You’ve got to admit – El Chapo really thought this through. Read more about his great escape and how it barely put a dent in his wallet here.
SOURCE: Yahoo Finance PHOTO CREDIT: Getty
How Much Did “El Chapo” Pay For His Elaborate Prison Escape? Here’s The Cost Breakdown… was originally published on globalgrind.com
Drug lord Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman has been recaptured seven months after he escaped from prison, Mexican authorities announced Friday.
But this isn’t the first time El Chapo, leader of the Sinaloa cartel, has been on the lam. The drug kingpin has a long history of capture, escape and recapture.
Here are some major dates in Guzman’s timeline (with some information from the Associated Press):
- June 10, 1993: Mexico announces Guzman’s first capture in Guatemala. But even after Guzman was imprisoned, “He continued to manage his affairs from prison with scarcely a hitch,” writes Robert Saviano in his book ZeroZeroZero. “The maximum security prison Puente Grande, where he was transferred in 1995, became his new base of operations,”
- Jan. 19, 2001: With the help of bribed guards, Guzman escapes from his top-security prison. Saviano describes the escape: “One of them—Francisco Camberos Rivera, known as El Chito, or the Silent One—opened the door to El Chapo’s cell and helped him climb into a cart of dirty laundry. They headed down unguarded hallways and through wide-open electronic doors to the inner parking lot, where only one guard was on duty. El Chapo jumped out of the cart and leaped into the trunk of a Chevrolet Monte Carlo.”
- Feb. 22, 2014: El Chapo is captured in Mazatlan after hiding in tunnels for days. The success was touted as a huge win for authorities, who by then had deemed Guzman the “most powerful drug trafficker in the world.”
- July 11, 2015: Guzman escapes through a tunnel from Mexico’s top-security prison. You can see the path he took to escape here.
- Jan. 8, 2016: He is once again re-captured in Los Mochis, Sinaloa after a shootout with Mexican marines. Five people were killed and one marine was wounded in the fight.
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