Carlos Lehder is a German-Colombian former drug trafficker who had an estimated peak net worth of $2.7 billion during the height of his criminal empire. Best known as one of the founding figures of the Medellín Cartel, Lehder played a key role in transforming cocaine smuggling into a highly organized international operation during the 1970s and 1980s. Lehder became infamous for using a private island in the Bahamas as a major cocaine transit hub…
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