Jamaican drug lord "Dudus" Coke had assets worth JA$300 million.

KINGSTON, Jamaica, Wednesday December 4, 2013, CMC – Christopher “Dudus” Coke, the Jamaican drug lord, who is serving 23 years in a federal prison in the United States, had massed assets worth J$300 million (One Jamaica dollar=US$0.01 cents), Police Commissioner Owen Ellington has said.

Christopher “Dudus” Coke was
extradited to the United States
on June 24, 2010 after a bloody
standoff between his supporters
 and police that lasted
nearly a month.

 

Coke was extradited to the United States on June 24, 2010 after a bloody standoff between his supporters and police that lasted nearly a month.

Several people lost their lives as a result and the government set up a Commission of Inquiry to probe the circumstances surrounding the extradition after it had become public that the then ruling that the then ruling Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) government had sought to prevent the extradition.

The US court also ordered Coke to pay US$1.5 million in forfeiture

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