A farmer in Colombia finds $600,000,000 drug money buried on his farm. It is known as one of the money pit by Pablo Emilio Escobar Gaviria or also known as "The King of Cocaine", born on December 1, 1949, and died on December 2, 1993.
Pablo was known as the wealthiest criminal in history, he supplied about 80% of the cocaine smuggled into the US. He has an estimated net worth of US$30 billion, and the US $50 billion including the money pits that he buried in different sites in Colombia.
Pablo Escobar was so powerful in his time that he can smuggle fifteen tons of cocaine worth more than half a billion dollars into the United States every day.
With this money, he spends about $1000 dollars just on rubber bands every week to wrap the stack of his cash.
Pablo made so much money that it is impossible to spend it all in his lifetime. He already has 800 luxurious mansions all over Colombia and owning a football team on his own. He also gave away billions of dollars to help build hospital's, schools, work programs and even rebuilt entire ghettos for the poverty stricken people of Colombia.
Even all of that, he still a huge amount of money to deal with. Not knowing what to do with that money, Pablo decided to bury it all over Colombia. The location of the money pits was known only by him and his three closest associates.
When Pablo was finally killed, the location of the money pits also died with him. The CIA estimates that there are about a hundred of these money pits that haven't discovered yet. Each containing in between five hundred million to one billion dollars.
Back to the story of the farmer, meet Jose Mariena Cartolos, a 65-year-old farmer in Colombia just received $3000 from the Colombian to start a palm plantation on last that has been on his bloodline for over 200 years.
While working on his farm, Jose discovered something unusual beneath his feet. After digging more, Jose just discovered several large blue containers with something unbelievable inside.
Money, not just a simple amount of money or even a million dollars. The 65-year-old farmer that has nothing and only shirt on his back found one of Pablo Escobar's money it's that contains an unbelievable amount of $600,000,000. If you're unsure. Yep, that's six hundred million dollars.
The news was spread all over Colombia and created a modern day "Gold rush" as people can be seen wandering around Colombian countryside with echo sounders and many kinds of scanning equipments. Searching for more of this money pits that Pablo Escobar was hidden.
It's not clear what will happen to the money that found by the farmer now. But it is sure that the money can't be kept by a farmer but most likely to be used by the Colombian government to fund many things for their country.
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SOURCE: PATRIOTHANGOUT
