most powerful people in the world
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"With a $13 billion fortune (and counting), Li Ka-shing is Hong Kong's richest man and arguably the most powerful man in Asia. His multibillion-dollar conglomerate, Hutchinson Whampoa, is the world's largest port operator and employs over 150,000 people worldwide in telecommunications, hotels, infrastructure, and retail. Li Ka-shing is in command of both sides of the Panama Canal, the vital waterway that connects the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific. Also, some of his closest associates are members of the Chinese communist government."
"Prince Alwaleed is right now the most important bridge between the Western and the Muslim worlds. The single largest Arab investor in U.S. corporations, Forbes magazine ranked him the sixth richest person in the world in 2001. With about $16 billion in holdings, his Kingdom Holding Company has major financial stakes in some of the world's best-known companies, including Citigroup, News Corp. and AOL Time Warner."
but remember they are the people you know, behind every rich man there is a criminal.
1. Pablo Emilio Escobar 1949-1993 9 Billion USD
Pablo Escobar was definitely the greatest and richest criminal the world hasA wanted poster of Pablo Escobar ever seen. In 1989 Forbes listed him as the seventh richest man in the world with an estimated net value of 9 Billion USD. Escobar was born in Columbia where from he estimated a drug cartel of incredible proportions. He had submarines, planes, and employed nearly every inhabitant of his hometown Medellin. On top of his career he even tried to become the president of Columbia, raged a court with tanks and build his own personal jail. All the same Palbo Escobar was shot in 1993 by an American special force.
2. Carlos Lehder 1950-? 2.7 Billion USD
According to my investigations the second place goes to Carlos Lehder. He worked together with Pablo Escobar and was one of the co-founders of the Medellin Cartel. His estimated net value was taxed on 2.7 Billion USD.
3. Susumu Ishii 1924-1991 1.5 Billion USD
Susumu Ishii was born in Tokyo in 1924. one of the heads of the Ingawa-Kai , Japan´s second largest “yakuza” underworld syndicate. Also he was the 5th soho of the Yokosusa-ikka. His estimated net value amounted to 1.5 Billion USD, which he earned through various loans, banking deals, and real estate scams. But as the Japanese economic bubble burst, Ishii was no longer “the world’s richest gangster”. His assets a his health declined rapidly, and diet one year later.
4.Anthony Salerno 1911-1992 600 Million USD
Anthony “Fat Tony” Salerno was a member of the American Cosa Nostra and the front boss of the Genovese crime family. He was born and raised in East Harlem, New York where he worked one´s way up to the top of New York’s mafia as a basher and shylock. In 1986 he was sentenced to 100 years prison by the “Mafia Commission Trial” where he died in 1992.
5.Meyer Lansky 1902-1993 400 Million USD
Meyer Lansky was born in Grodno Russia and emigrated with is family to the U.S.A in 1911, where he settled down on the East Side of Manhattan. At the age of 25 he established gambling operations in Florida and Cuba. Later he realised own vulnerability to tax evasion prosecution, in response he transferred illegal funds from his growing casino empire to Europe. A few years later he even bought a complete offshore bank in Switzerland.
oh and that madoff had some influence
- I thought that Prince Smokinweed photo was a shopped photo of BonoJG_LB