Pablo Escobar's secret first-born son says he has 'pretty good idea' of how to decipher a series of codes which lead to his birth father's missing millions
- Roberto Sendoya Escobar, 54, lives in Mallorca, discovered secret linage in 1989
- He was separated from drug lord as infant, after being rescued from a shoot out
- In 1993 was left a series of code's leading to Pablo's millions from adoptive father
Pablo Escobar's secret first born son says he has a 'pretty good idea' of how to solve the series of codes which lead to his birth father's missing millions.
Roberto Sendoya Escobar, 54, who now lives in Mallorca under his adopted name of Phillip Witcomb, found out the infamous Columbian drug lord was his father in 1989 at the age of 24.
He was separated from Pablo as an infant, after being rescued from a traumatic shoot out which killed his mother, by a British undercover MI6 agent, who adopted him and sent him to boarding school in the UK.
Roberto's adoptive father regularly took him as a young boy to visit Pablo Escobar in Medellin, in order to keep the drug lord on board and to track his movements for MI6 - and in 1993 he gave Roberto a series of code's leading to Pablo's millions.
Appearing on Good Morning Britain today, Roberto told how after 'studying his dad's movements' he's 'got a long way down the road' and is coming closer to deciphering the puzzle, which will eventually lead to his father's hidden money.
Colombian narcoterrorist Pablo Escobar, pictured in 1991, built a multi-billion dollar empire controlling 80 per cent of world cocaine trade by slaughtering thousands of innocent people
Roberto Sendoya Escobar, 54, who now lives in Mallorca under his adopted name of Phillip Witcomb, appeared on Good Morning Britain today
He said: 'I've been doing that for a while as you can imagine, trying to work it all out.
'I've got a long way down the road have a pretty good idea, studying Dad's movements and his style and what he was doing. There are all these other things involved and I've now been able to work out a lot of it.'
He's previously said that most of the money, if not all of it, should go straight to charity to try to offset some of the damage the drug lord caused.
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After being adopted, Roberto was sent to school in Herefordshire because his father felt it would be too dangerous for him to remain at home, fearing the drug lord would attempt to kidnap his son.
He told that while growing up there were 'strange things' like his ability to speak Spanish, he treated his adoptive parents as 'just Mum and Dad' and had no idea his father was attempting to track Pablo's missing money.
Medellin drug cartel boss Pablo is pictured in 1983 watching a football game in Medellin, Colombia, six-years before Roberto discovered he was his birth father
'They were just Mum and Dad', said Roberto, 'And there were strange things like I was learning English and spoke Spanish and wasn't able to communicate properly for a while.
'But I didn't really know, and when I was nine they told me I was adopted, but the word didn't mean anything to me. They didn't tell me who my parents were. I just treated them as my parents.'
Speaking about his adoptive father, he continued: 'We didn't know, he did disappear sometimes. He wasn't at home for Christmas and we put it down to business. But it turns out he was a secret service agent and they're helping an American operation trying to track all this money that's disappearing out of America.
Who was Pablo Escobar, leader of the Medellin Cartel?
Pablo Emilio Escobar Gaviria was a Colombian drug trafficker.
During his time at the helm of the Medellin Cartel he controlled over 80 per cent of the cocaine shipped to the US.
This earned him the rank of one of Forbes Magazine’s ten wealthiest people in the world.
Escobar entered the cocaine trade in the early 1970s, collaborating with other criminals to form the Medellin Cartel.
Despite his role as a drug lord Escobar earned popularity by sponsoring charity projects and soccer clubs.
However terror campaigns run by Escobar resulted in the murder of thousands turned the public against him.
By the mid-1980s, Pablo Escobar had an estimated net worth of $30 billion and cash was so prevalent that Escobar purchased a Learjet for the sole purpose of flying his money.
More than 15 tons of cocaine were reportedly smuggled each day, netting the Cartel as much as $420 million a week.
Colombian law enforcement finally caught up to Pablo Escobar on December 2, 1993 in a middle-class neighborhood in Medellin.
A firefight ensued and, as Escobar tried to escape across a series of rooftops, he and his bodyguard were shot and killed.
Source: Biography.com
'It's a 20-year operation, which leads to all that and where the money is comes from, his secret operation which starts from 1959 and it's like a Bond film, incredible.'
The public school-educated artist previously said that he was born after, in his own words, a 'non-consensual' encounter between his father, then aged 16, and Maria Luisa Sendoya, who was just 14.
The birth was kept quiet and, although he does not have a birth certificate naming Escobar as his father, a baptism document says Witcomb was born to the drug lord.
The Colombian narcoterrorist built a multi-billion dollar empire controlling 80 per cent of world's cocaine trade by slaughtering thousands of innocent people, including politicians, judges, journalists and rival traffickers, while waging war on Colombia's government.
He told hosts Ben Shepherd and Kate Garraway (both pictured) his adoptive MI6 agent father in 1993 gave him a series of code's leading to Pablo's millions
Roberto spoke of Netflix series Narcos, which chronicles the rise of the cocaine trade in Colombia. Pictured, Wagner Moura as Pablo Escobar
In 1993, Escobar was gunned down by police in Medellin and the fallout from this led to other big players in the cartel being jailed.
Roberto spoke of Netflix series Narcos, which chronicles the rise of the cocaine trade in Colombia and details the life of Pablo, insisting that his life is a 'prequel' to the story.
'It's been Hollywood-ised,' said Roberto.' Obviously you can't criticise them, they've done a very professional job, but the reality is, my story is the prequel to Narcos.
'There is this drug dealer, but how did it all start? How does this school drop out become the world's richest man?'
