The interior of the Miami Beach home that used to belong to drug lord Pablo Escobar, pictured on Wednesday.Photo: AFP
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Pablo Escobar, richest criminal in history, used to own this home. What secrets hide inside?
Christian de Berdouare stands with his dog by a pool of a house that used to belong to notorious Colombian drug lord Pablo Escobar on January 13, 2016, in Miami Beach, FL. The new owner of the house, fast-food magnate Christian de Berdouare, will next week demolish the property and replace it with a new modern house. Escobar was a charismatic man who rose from middle-class nothingness to run a mighty cocaine cartel that fought wars with rivals and became responsible for most of the cocaine imported into the United States in the 1980s and early '90s. / AFP / Diego URDANETA
A Miami Beach mansion once owned by Colombian drug kingpin Pablo Escobar is being demolished by its current owner, who says he intends to search it for hidden loot before tearing it down.
Christian de Berdouare, who bought the property in 2014 for US$10 million, said work to dismantle the house began Monday and could take two to three weeks.
“We have put together a team and we have had all kinds of people ... with metal detectors, sonar, all kinds of things, in order to determine if there is anything hidden,” said De Berdouare, the founder and CEO of Chicken Kitchen, a restaurant chain.
Escobar, once one of the world’s richest men and reputedly the wealthiest crime boss in history, worth anywhere from US$10 billion to US$100 billion, ran the notorious Medellin drug cartel that was responsible for most of the cocaine imported into the United States in the 1980s and early ’90s. He died in 1993, aged 44.
He was killed in a shootout with police in 1993. 
Pablo Escobar was reputed to have been the richest criminal in history. Photo: Supplied
The entrance of a Miami Beach house that used to belong to Pablo Escobar . Photo: AFP
Escobar “used to hide money in all his houses”, de Berdouare said.
He said it was possible that valuables other than money were hidden in the house.
“It could be cash, could be gold, could be jewellery, could be dead bodies - could be anything,” he said.
De Berdouare said he plans to build a bigger and grander home on the site after tearing down Escobar’s property.