Pablo Escobar Lost 2.1 Billion Dollars a Year to Rats Eating His Money

He was making so much money that he couldn't store it fast enough.
At its peak, the cartel was bringing in 420 million dollars per week.
Warehouses filled with cash stacked from floor to ceiling
The problem? Rats were eating the bills.
Billions per year were being lost just from rats and water damage
That's 5.7 million dollars lost per day and nobody cared.
He even spent $2,500 a month just on rubber bands to keep the money together.
One night, while fleeing, his family got cold.
So they burned 2 million dollars in cash to stay warm.
Forbes included him on their billionaire list and he was once the seventh richest person in the world.
His accountants couldn't even count it all, they just estimated it.
This man had so much money that it was literally rotting faster than anyone could spend it.