Wednesday, January 27, 2016

Mystery surrounds discovery at drug lord's former mansion

Workers carrying out the demolition of the mansion in Miami Beach that belonged to drug trafficker Pablo Escobar found a metal safe under the house’s foundations on Monday.
The safe is approximately 2 feet wide by 2 feet long and weighs about 600 pounds. The box is locked, and its contents are unknown.
The owners of the mansion had previously found a hole where another safe was believed to have been hidden. But that safe was stolen in the last 30 days, and there is currently a police investigation into its disappearance.
Christian de Berdouare, entrepreneur and founder of the restaurant chain Chicken Kitchen, currently owns the property with his wife, television journalist Jennifer Valoppi.
The safe found on Monday will be taken to a bank, where it will stay for an indefinite amount of time before the property owners decide to unlock it. They plan to open it once they finish a documentary currently being made on the history of the mansion.
Pablo Escobar
Pablo Escobar. Born in 1949 in Antioquia, Colombia, he became the leader of the powerful Medellin drugs cartel
During the cartel's heyday he was thought to be among the world's 10 richest people
Many of his properties had hidden stashes of cash and jewellery
His Medellin drugs cartel was accused of being behind up to 80% of all the cocaine shipped to the US
Killed on a Medellin rooftop during a shoot-out as he was trying to flee from the police on 2 December 1993

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