over the past few weeks. we. will have to. press charges. against. the. special report which reveals a story of the rise and fall of the colombian drug lord. the man who created around

one of the biggest. in history. the crew kicks its heels in a hotel for three days waiting for some response or acknowledgement to the requests to me top. caution and distrust runs deep in the ask about clan. but on the fourth day there's a phone call album arena finally agrees to get together at her house. it's now learned that album arena have been asked about his coconspirator during the time he had been hunted or as she puts it persecuted they shed many secrets and to this day she still has the greatest admiration for her brother. almost nobody knows that i have kept all these souvenirs. these all belong to pablo at one time i

picked them up from his various hiding places. i had a brother. who was two years old a. video of him from this time is rare but roberto escobar was a key member of the medina. he would also play an important role in his brother's flight from justice his speciality was accounting and his memoirs claims to have been among the fifteen people who helped organize the finances of the cocaine empire. before taking a leave album arena had claimed her brother can be reached through a contact in the united states. i don't know or would like to speak with. out there interviewer ben roberto to talk about publicly we need to speak with i mean you'd also need to pay some money i

don't know how much the. this is to. eventually a deal is reached with a person we actually want to interview the woman agrees to provide his fine number . and yellow sea with the roberto little if. he's going to. french journalist how you. find yourself and we meet at your office or somewhere that's convenient. yeah no problem well can you tell me where we can actually meet them or go to the last promise of a station i'll have someone meet you that evening that thank you very much don roberto. the meeting is due to take place in a residential district in central maine the only condition is no cameras. we nonetheless decided to film the meeting anyway. and it's not

a. done roberto has no wish to dwell on the days when he was part of a cartel and dealt in cocaine although he has agreed to an exclusive deal with hollywood producers to sell his life story. the story of pablo's time on the run is something i'm familiar with. in fact i probably know more about it than most of the don't know what is on the. beginning in one thousand eight hundred three i spent most of my time with pablo we were the best of friends two brothers that were inseparable and we did everything together including during the time when he was in hiding but. the remaining fifteen minutes of the interview proved to be less fruitful he does agree to tell us though that while the public was on the run he was always able to stay in touch. with his presence all roberto used a phone that he had missed t.v.

set to communicate with his brother. and made a phone in my t.v. set i'd rate the top and turned it into a telephone. visitors would only see on t.v. that it allowed me to talk with my brother any time. i change my voice and ask him . oh brother how you doing what are you up to what i mean or write them. june one thousand nine hundred three marked one year since i had escaped from the crowd to draw a special unit has no idea where he is and he moves around the city under the very noses of the police. the government decides to tighten the screws. so you see the shia it triples the reward and ask about dead or alive is now worth five million dollars for absolute shit about.

the authorities refine and perfect their electronic surveillance escobar as one of the first to own a cellphone but he knows he has to keep on the move and keep his conversation short to prevent the police from pinpointing his position and technical they're going to go on a one day an american technician who was up in the airplane tells us he's got a precise position. he's located the site climbing place he was so i suspect i mean. they on day twenty. it's in mountainous difficult terrain. we organized a helicopter operation in the up and i secrecy was just a short while later we hear someone warning him on the radio saying. they know where you also go they're on their way. by the time we arrived where he'd gone.

it's obvious there's a mole in the unit a traitor who keeps the head of a cartel informed the instant the police are about to swoop. the colonel quickly ferrets him out here to. the police here. in form i was a young police exhilarated there was no innocent school woodcarver. little figures of police move you know you have a cop has he said he'd hang around with us all the time at the police station and. the informant was in escobar as paid using the money to rent an apartment in this building just behind the barracks and. soon as this policeman knew an operation was being organized he used to run home. using a radio code cool and. left on a school and talk code and say things like tell some.

as they used to. live there on their way making straight for you. so when we were heading up towards the target would sometimes see people's about getting past going the other way. that the traitor is eliminated and the manhunt can resume unimpeded. the no i took out target is a guy called el chapo what into our information he's hiding in this area. or was the terrorists' hands on terrorists guy who plays ball the ball. kind of person i want to start going to a couple of minutes here on this photo album with our various operations and

suspects and i think this is the guy we want to catch tonight. as a complete change of tactics the idea is to isolate escobar by rounding up his key men one by one man your customer no alias and chapal is termites target. the operation against a chopper is a success and many others followed the senior members of the cartel are eliminated while not often the other public as a severely weakened so towards the end escobar was running without strong. fear begins to creep in and the predator becomes the prey. and a new enemy begins to emerge the so-called group of the persecuted bulls are known and maybe even as the pig. as were criminals who had once been

a limited cartel that left for one reason or another and they began to challenge and then fight as. their bosses a to form accomplices of escobar who'd had enough of his paranoia and cruelty. and like the police the peppers knew all the secrets some habits of the leader of the cartel. the bloodletting searing starts as the pepper has gone down anyone that's close to the godfather of soul this changed the dynamics of this esquire now started worrying about his own family. the past has used the same tactics used by escobar by targeting the families. case in point as the

apartment owned by his mother is blown up at the time eskimos wife and children had been inside nobody is hurt but the attack is a. one day they set off a bomb and it ruined a painting by dali which was estimated to be worth five million dollars as wife was devastated and she calls look she says they've destroyed the dolly what are we going to do about it. gradually escobar begins to fear for the lives of his loved ones it will be the reason of his downfall. as long as a son and daughter in colombia he cannot relax. he decides to send them to germany in europe. on the twenty seventh of november maria viktoria juan pablo and little manuel aboard a flight to frankfurt on the police escort and filmed by the t.v. crews. escobar breathes

a sigh of relief but although he doesn't know it yet but countdown to his iron hand has already begun sure balsa a slow see how his wife and kids if leave for a safe country will. be gone by but there's no country that wants them. plain goes backwards and forwards and eventually he returns a colombian no one wanted anything more to do with pablo escobar. on the diplomatic pressure the german government sunday escobar family back home on the twenty nine fiasco back in colombia on the police protection they have no idea they have walked straight into the trap set by u.s. and colombian authorities. tell us a little they are asserting that once they've been expelled from germany and what back in colombia they begin pressuring escobar in a big way. when they land they ask about family is whisked

away to a police safe house in bogota. they have become prisoners. at the same time the peppers step up the pressure and attack the hotel with grenades over a game no one is injured. in his lair as hysterical with forgets even the most basic security. probably we're talking every day at six o'clock in the afternoon on the same frequency and that's how we started intercepting his communications. with the special investigation unit it's the turning point in the battle every man is mobilized and every means deployed. in front for vocal reconnaissance vehicles they cruise the streets and maybe in an effort to locate the godfather as soon as he opens his mouth. it's a gamble like. we were listening in twenty four hours

a day by that time in the such as our units were in full alert ready to intervene whenever a call was intercepted. on the thoughts of december police technicians identify five phone calls made by ask about from different locations in the city center when lenient see him he was always on the move calling from a car that was constantly travelling. the police finally figure out want to ask about his tricks to avoid being tracked down the fugitive had for months been using a simple but effective ruse that of using one of the city's numerous caps that would drive around nonstop while he made brief cool's from his cell phone. after four days spent listening in we were very tired we thought we'd never be able to track him down. but then suddenly on day five we intercept his latest phone call and an amazing thing happens it's a signal from

a fixed line so we know he's phoning from a house. the first police on site confirm the information and brief their superior officer at once. the one where he is here to anything so he tells me that's it i'm at the house i'm right in front of it i think i can see him inside it. is near the window with a telephone in his hand. it's a confirmed sighting and the little advances led by major. us has entered our most of which we were cautious i made up to the house the first thing we saw was the taxi which he used to take that.

school talent and then i had public talking on the phone and he was up on the second floor. so we was heartless i had my rifle on the muslim front seat we were moving him slowly. absolute silence this boss your. back i see him. just tell us and he's right in front of me bill you're not there but i will have a clear shot we will not have for you i spat at you so i can't for that and then he turns around as he sees me and he says what's happening and he drops the phones pulls out his revolver and opens fire that. i run upstairs clutching my pistol and

i shoot him and say to mr shoulder and then i says the debate with unless by that. any policeman behind me takes his rifle and there's some files on the wonderful seal a spot on the lip i want people should some here right in the temple the bullet goes in here and exits the. d.n.c. lands and he suddenly throws himself through the window. just sell books. i jumped out too which was difficult because back then the windows were much higher. so i moved forward that was take the gun away from him. and then i take the radio call my bosses and shout. b i don't live columbia i want the public school ablow is dead . within thirty minutes all one thousand men of the special unit have arrived on the scene the whole city appears to congregate at the house and at the news of public death some

up lord others are in tears. his face hit the american agent steven murphy makes his way through the crowds of soldiers he wasn't about to let the culmination of sixteen months work go by on recognized everybody was very happy everybody's very exhausted. you just can't imagine the pressure that we felt had been lifted off our shoulders much less how the colombian national police must do for. one thirty pm on the second of december one thousand nine hundred three marks the end of the largest manhunt in history. was popular escobar is buried the next morning just outside maybe

ten thousand people show up for the funeral home any escobar had been idle. off to one corner of the female members of the family almost crushed as the crowd tries to touch the coffin one last time. sixteen years off of the death of the most wanted man on the planet one mystery remains unresolved what happened to the mating godfathers fost for sure where did

he hide the five billion dollars that legend has it he was worth. a you'll see i think his family has most of the money because a lot of money was ever found in colombia that if he really had all those millions and even if he probably didn't know how much exactly even if it was just well hofmann doubles he and his wife and children would have to be multi-millionaires today tina. we want to just check general mazas comments. one is arias the capital of argentina. after his death escobar as widow maria victoria and her two children subtle here and some confident they changed identities and blended into the background maria victoria changed time aim to maria is about juan pablo is better known today as sebastian morrow came. it took us more than a week to track them down we ask abbas family now dabbles in real estate and maria

victoria has set up an interior decorating company along with a song in the heart of palermo a trendy part of the city. where outside and decide to make some phone calls. to the studio good morning guys. it was a best american please he's not in you know when he might be back is he in town i think is on a trip i don't know where exactly is going to board. ok well thanks very much. forced to wait it seems a good time to find out more about the activities of the family in argentina we spoke to a journalist who has been reporting on the family since they first arrived. here. if you're going to buy. when i first came here they started hanging out with the locals in particular an accountant at the beginning maria victoria and he were just

friends but then they became lovers for monies they bought an apartment and it became a bad law office. the apartment becomes the center of maria victoria and her love as money laundering operations. in. the accountant begins to travel back and forth to colombia caring trunks full of bank notes and. your luggage has a full possibly and contain as much as four hundred thousand dollars between ninety five in one thousand nine hundred four yes it's been proved they smuggled in at least two million dollars but there are some estimates that it could have been more than ten million. but memory of a tory is love a certain betrayed the accountant is really only interested in the money he becomes greedy and effectively blackmails mrs escobar for no less than five years. in one

thousand nine hundred nine there's a dramatic development as the entire escobar family is arrested maria victoria her son juan pablo as well as the blackmailer. they're released almost immediately the judges were never able to prove their wealth came from the drugs trade. since then the accountant has mysteriously disappeared and maria victoria has never been seen in public. the next move is to head towards escobar office building. the days tick by without news. by day four we're now caught acting on a tip from one power broker who's just arrived back in what is iris and would like to meet up.

there's no mistaking his father was they look so similar in profile the godfather son has wiped the past from his slate these days he's a successful designer in argentina. we had two hour meeting with the son of the godfather equipped with a hidden camera. the man who's trying to rebuild his life is notoriously shy of the media so our meeting is significant. should i call you sebastian owen pablo. sebastian one pablo to me is ancient history that was my life before. now your father built up a considerable fortune what happened to his money were you able to use any of it.

the answer is simple. the war cost a huge deal of money. my father was immensely wealthy but he stopped dealing in drugs and invested all of his money into that war. the weapons and the manpower cost enormous amounts of money. and be on the cost of the weapons and explosives and a considerable amount of money was used to corrupt people. so he bought the whole country off. yeah the whole country all of it. i remember very well being in my father's office once i saw an endless stream of important. people for example he was inside meeting with an official and outside the policeman scolding him a keeping guard after the boss of finished they went in to be paid and that's the way it always was one day policeman another day politicians one day i even saw a former president of the republic he would pay off everybody that would say is a check thanks very much. argentine justice eventually threw

up the case but as the only sort of problem escobar there are many who have doubts of where his money came from. you know we've been accused of laundering maybe what was the figure about a million dollars over a period of five years. i can say is if it's true then we must be the worst money launderers in history since if you try it and loan the money that comes from a cocaine trade. one million dollars is nothing just pocket money for a cup of coffee. so what did happen to ask about these billions of a number of accounts all buried underground somewhere. or are they just a legend. nobody knows about maybe from this woman maria victoria the mehdi godfathers widow.

she refused to talk with us and the only images we have of these few seconds in the streets and one is areas. she has the key to some of the secrets. but he died of not maybe you know rooftop in one thousand nine hundred three a blow escobar the greatest drug trafficker of all time took some of his secrets to his grave.

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