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Friday, November 22, 2019

The immense fortune of Caro Quintero: What the “Narco de Narcos” accumulated while in prison

Chivis Martinez Borderland Beat from Infobae

Unofficially, it is known that the so-called “Narco de Narcos” accumulated up to 500 million dollars
Rafael Caro Quintero

Throughout the 40 years that drug trafficker Rafael Caro Quintero was imprisoned, his family created a business network legally constituted by at least 30 companies.

According to the newspaper El Universal, all businesses were established in the city of Guadalajara, Jalisco, and covered various items: from real estate, dealerships of new and used cars, services in telephone booths, restaurants, fashion and footwear and spas, to the distribution of fuel and mining.

The businesses were created with the participation of 25 trusted members of the so-called “Narco de Narcos”, currently a fugitive from justice. Among those 25 members of family, of which includes a wife, four children, a son-in-law, a daughter-in-law and their "consuegros".  
Unofficially it is estimated that the capo, currently 67 years old and a native of Sinaloa, has accumulated a fortune of almost 500 million dollars.

Caro Quintero was arrested in San José, Costa Rica, on April 4, 1985, charged with the murder of the member of the US Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA), Enrique "Kiki" Camarena, and other crimes. Therefore, he was added to  the list of the 10 most wanted by the United States government.

In August 2013, after being 28 years in prison, Rafael Caro Quintero was released due to failures in due process and although the United States government was to be notified, it was already too late as they discovered the “error” after the release.

From that moment, the former leader of the Guadalajara Cartel is considered a fugitive from justice, so in April 2018, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) increased the reward to $20 million to whomever can provide data that leads to his capture.

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Since 2017, the name "Rafael Caro Quintero" is a registered trademark, so it is prevented that this denomination be used without consent for entertainment services, sports and cultural activities or production of radio and television programs.

Permission must be granted to use photographic material, stationery, as well as material for artists, drawing, instructional instruction for printed publications unless the rights are paid.

According to El Universal , both his name and both surnames have two records in the Mexican Institute of Industrial Property (IMPI) . However, the boss is not the beneficiary of these records, but his sentimental partner and mother of his fifth son Diana Altagracia Espinoza Aguilar, [above] is a beauty queen and who was imprisoned in the Puente Grande Penal, for organized crime.

The newspaper notes that the Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC), a financial control agency under the US Department of the Treasury that tracks the fortunes of dirty drug trafficking money, denounced the family and partner network related to Caro Quintero, since 2013, and in 2016 included Diana Espinoza, who owned 24 companies.

However, through public records obtained by the newspaper El Universal it was found that the network extends to other sectors in more than 30 mercantile societies opened by the members of his family.

Although in August of this year four partners accused of drug trafficking linked to Caro Quintero were removed from the blacklist of the OFAC, all members of their family were registered.
The company Organic Salt, SA de CV , founded in 2003, was with which the family of Caro Quintero ventured into the world of business ventures of lawful commercial, financial, real estate and industrial investments.

Then came other businesses such as fuel distribution. In 2004, the sons of the boss Héctor Rafael and Honoch Emilio Caro Helenes, opened Grupo Español Elcar SA de CV , in 2005 they opened Servicio y Operadora Santa Ana SA de CV .; Energéticos Vago SA de CV in 2006 and Petro Mas, S. de RL de CV in 2007.

In addition, the brothers Héctor Rafael, Roxana Elizabeth, Henoch Emilio and Mario Yibran Caro Helenes founded Petro Bio S. de RL de CV in 2008 and Estación de Servicio Atemajac, SA de CV , in 2010.

El Universal details that real estate businesses started in 1999 with Villas de Colli, SA de CV , then Barsat SA de CV came in 2004; Grupo Barsaterra SA de CV and Desarrolladora Francisco del Rincón SA de CV in 2005. For 2007, Henoch and Yibran founded Nueva Terra SA de CV and Dinermas S. de RL de CV., While Desarrollos Bio Gas, SA de CV.

It was established in 2008.

At the same time, they entered the mining business. In 2006 they created Minerales Nueva Era, SA de CV, while in 2010, Henoch opened Minerales Nueva Generación SA de CV, in order to consolidate in the sector.

While with the company Hacienda Las Limas SA de CV the women of the family instilled in the hotel business, spa, cafes, restaurants and bars.


El Universal also reports other companies that cover agricultural activities, breweries and restaurant chains, including geography and satellite imagery

36 comments:

  1. If this guy did 500 million behind bars I wonder how much El Mayo is worth having never been captured.

    I’m sure he has over a billion but unless your in his inner circle i guess there is really no way to know.

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    1. You know I am of the opinion that you can see people’s soul through their eyes and this man, Rafael Caro, doesn’t seem like a monster to me. And I’ve always wondered what kind of advice would he and Someone like Mayo have for younger generations. Would they tell them to not do what they did?

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    2. But Mayo was never as big as Caro.

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    3. El mayo was the heir of amado Carrillo yes he has more power and wealth than any Capo alive or dead, this includes escobar.

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    4. @ 2:04 Clearly you have never spent time around sociopaths.....

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    5. 3:07 nobody has been as big as their boss partner, Don Felix Ismael Rodriguez Mendigutia, the cuban refugee narcoterrorista who ordered his mexican servants to kidnap, torture and murder Kiki Camarena in Guadalajara Jalisco in 1985, the US government knows it, his whereabouts, his complicity and has refused to do anything about it for what is now 34 years, just because he has friends and partners in very high places in the US government, where US ambassador John Bolton learned what a 'Drug Deal' looks like and to tell his colleagues to go to the lawyers because shit is about to hit the fan.

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    6. A billion for Mayo?? 😂😂 and trillion for chapo or what?? With that kind of money his kids wouldn’t be in U.S. prisons from being in the business. Look at Caro’s kids, never touched. Best of schools and laundering money, never having to get their hands as dirty as they would being in the drug game.

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    7. 8:04 could be. You make a good point

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  2. You know He's Happy Happy Happy 😆😉😁😁😁😁😁😁

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  3. Sinaloenses always love to have beautiful woman thats been their down fall for poor and rich sinaloas something tells me it won't be no different from Caro Quintero

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    1. Who’s beautiful? Bitches are ugly they wear a shit load of make and get plastic surgery. Sinaloenses are lames they just use the women to get advice on fashion and how to be more feminine narcos.

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    2. 4:21 hate is strong brother

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    3. That girl in red dress is from Oaxaca or pueblos, I forgot which state but she's not from SINALOA

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    1. Seized assets will only go to those pocketbooks of elite. Nothing changes in the end.

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  5. Come on give him a break and leave el#1live his life he already did all those years in prison for something that he didn’t do and still the people who were behind the killing want to make things worse for him and his family pinches gringos culeros

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  6. Its wasnt that caro quintero made these bussiness,it was his money that made them...and his kids or family made them successful! Hector caro quintero has a huge ranch in sonora

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    1. how do you know?

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    2. Your dry snitching confirms that Caro works with Jalisco.

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  7. I may catch some heat for this but good that money is invested back in the Mexico economy. Yeah it's dirty money but who's the US to judge, Miami wasn't built on clean money... These narcos should make their country beautiful, what goes does it do to be a billionaire if you're living in a shack in a village?

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    1. Lol I wish narcos would actually build Mexico and its people. But damn does it always seem to be the other way around. Shit I must agree with you though, the least the decent citizens (MOST MEXICANS) deserve is some monetary retribution for all the shit they endure on the daily. Mexico deserves better and can definitely do better, the real question is who can fix Mexico? I know I will take heat for this but we know Amlo won’t fix Mexico, especially when he wants a nonviolence approach and narcos don’t

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    2. Yeah Miami wasn’t built on clean money, but that kind of violence and shameless drug trade has been long gone. Obviously I know there has to still be drug dealing but it’ll never be like before. Hopefully this money can re-build Mexico and hopefully Mexico can soon eradicate the mess it has got going on for way too fucking long. Even though drug trafficking will most likely never be eliminated, it can at least be diminished

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    3. Las Vegas is the city that was built on the foundation of organized crime. Vegas is what it is because of the Mafiosos. Mexican Cartel being Cartel are powerful, they could do similiar in Mexico, pump that money in the economy and fix their homeland, but they are too greedy, too power hungry, they may help the small poor communities where the boss grew up, but at the cost of destroying the rest of the country, They dont care about the bad image they love the attention.

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    4. the only people that can fix Mexico is mexicans them selves. But they gotta stop playing victim now and stand up, stop bribing the cops if youre getting a ticket, you feed corruption that way, stop putting idiots in office (thats a problem here too) stop glorifying these guys, when chapo got caught there where protests, people marching, but when do they march for peace? educate the kids so they dont see these guys like heroes, change that mentality that because youre poor thats the only way, thats bullshit, I bet these guys dont join because its a way out of poverty, they do it because they just wanna be badass, all sicarios you see that where poor remain poor while involved and die poor, might aswell join the military if you like guns, have some patriotism and honor. I bet all these clothing brands they making will be bought and worn by Mexicans. The sicarios that took over Culiacan are people just people, if people are able to do that for one narco kid, what stops the people to do that for their family? their community, their safety the future for their kids? it happened all over Michoacan, the people rose and kicked out the Narcos but then again, that same people became narcos and the bullshit continues because thats all they know, rather than to think what else can they do, how can they take advantage of their land to make money rather than take advantage of the meth labs and make money illegally, they became the same shit they where against. Mexico has potential but its people are just too blind to see it or they like it idk, everywhere else in the world even in the hardest countries where dictators kill their own people who only wish to be free usually rise up and change something they dont like, yet Mexico has alot of freedom, has a democracy, the people are who call the shots but yet they rather live like prisoners

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    5. el Rafa, don Neto y el padrino miguel angel felix gallardo were the fall guys, their partners in the US government had to save their ass, pero eso se sacaron por andar ahi de calientes. the mexicans do not need any narco's money, it would be more than enough if they could get back the money stolen by its former presidentes, in cahoots with "billionaires" like carlos slim helu

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  8. Jajaja abran los ojos y verán como Son y han Sido las cosas...

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  9. Chivi

    Is Ines Calderon Quintero related to RCQ?

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  10. Well, at least he put in some roads in that ham shack of a place called Badriguto for his peoples

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  11. Caro is smart he will be the next big thing and bring all of mexico cartels together like back in the days he got arrested when he was young but now he learned from his mistakes

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  12. This kind of headline is not good for him. While the DEA certainly knows of this, it will only serve to piss them off more and strengthen their resolve. Once you get on the FBI most wanted list, your days are numbered. It may take awhile but they are going to get you eventually.

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  13. Remember he said he was a poor guy if 500 million is poor then i'd be happy poor.

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  14. El Mayo’s estimated net worth is 3 billion...And going back to the creation of the Guadalajara cartel he has always been much bigger than RCQ. EL Padrino, Felix Gallardo has an estimated net worth of $55 billion. They made a huge mistake when they kidnapped and murdered Kiki Camarena, but if you read some of the reporting by Charles Bowden and others you know that the CIA was behind it all. They were trying to protect their asses and their revenue streams.
    https://medium.com/@gailelizabeth001/ismael-el-mayo-zambada-net-worth-and-associate-drug-lords-30f50d65ce47

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  15. USA needs to mind their own business. A man getting out of Mexican jail on a technical issue after serving a few decades is NOT a fugitive. But USA wants to be a-holes, they have to regain their manhood by forcing everyone into believing he is a fugitive. Makes me wish that Caro could've got all of their CIA and DEA agents. All the rich US families that are thriving from drug money and calling shots for the FBI, CIA and DEA too. USA is a joke and no one should believe their Government at all.

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    1. Who are these families if you gonna start a story tell it all

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    2. No one should believe the government??? I feel free here I trust the police I trust the system something I can’t say about Mexico

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