Feral Jundi

 “Pablo was earning so much that each year we’d write off ten per cent of the money because rats would eat it in storage or it would be damaged by water or lost.

“We had so much money we would spend as much as $2,500 on rubber bands just to hold it together. We’d holiday in Las Vegas, where we’d have dinner with Frank Sinatra, on petty cash.”

   This story will be interesting to watch and I wish Mr. Miller and his crew all the luck with their mission to recover this money.  By the way, I have not read the book, nor do I know the locations of this stuff.  I guess if you want a shot at Scarface’s Millions, you will have to pick up a copy of this book and do some research.  Although it sounds like Mr. Miller’s team is pretty much at the lead for this race. –Matt

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RACE FOR SCARFACE’S MILLIONS

DAILY STAR SUNDAY

ABOVE: Pablo Escobar, left

3rd May 2009

By Mike Parker

A DESPERATE race is on to find a fortune stashed in secret locations by dead drug baron Pablo Escobar.

And at least one team of British mercenaries is joining the hunt in the Colombian jungle.

It was triggered by astonishing claims over the whereabouts of Escobar’s evil earnings in a new book.

Escobar’s surviving brother, Roberto – a former cartel “accountant” – claims the drug baron left millions salted away in Swiss bank accounts.

The accounts were known only to Escobar – whose rise inspired the 1983 Al Pacino film Scarface – and the untold wealth deposited in them is likely to be lost forever.

But in his book Escobar: The Untold Story Of The World’s Most Powerful Criminal, Roberto tells how more cash was simply buried before Escobar died in a bloody shoot-out with troops and US drug agents in December 1993.

So far only $10million and an arsenal of weapons has been recovered from underground vaults at a sprawling complex called La Catedral, built in the jungle by Escobar.

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