Escobar’s pilot spoke for the first time: they would bring me the car that suits the shirt I decided to wear that day – Cyprus Newspaper

Pablo Escobar’s chief pilot Tirso ‘TJ’ Dominguez, in his interview for the first time after his arrest, said the story that started with his father’s death and how his paths crossed with Escobar. Dominguez, ‘I decided to wear that day, they would bring me the car to me’ he said.

Pablo Escobar’s chief pilot Tirso ‘TJ’ Dominguez gave an interview for a Podcast series for the first time since his arrest in Florida in 1988.

‘My story started with my father’s death’

In an interview with Dominguez, the entry into drug smuggling began when his father, who was a contractor in Southern Florida in the late 1970s, started with cancer while building a sugar factory in Haiti.

Dominguez said that his father was 20 years old when he was dead and that his father had been defrauded by two brutal Miami bankers who refused to give a $ 14 million loan he received before he died.

However, when he started to work, he left the property of 800 thousand dollars to the wrong boat in a shipment, and that the suppliers kidnapped him and threatened him to kill him with his family, Dominguez said that the fastest way to compensate for the damage was to carry an aircraft full of drugs and that he said.

‘I was earning 4 million dollars per month, first I turned down Escobar’s offer’

Dominguez said that his first flight in smuggling gave him 1 million dollars and that this earnings convince him to carry full -time drugs.

Dominguez said Escobar offered him to join his cartel, but at the beginning he turned down this offer. Dominguez said that I was making four flights a month and earning $ 1 million for each one,

« I was a person who liked myself. I earned 4 million dollars a month. What was missing? » He said.

‘Escobar offered 20 million dollars per month’

Dominguez rejected the offer that Escobar offered $ 5 million for each flight, which corresponds to $ 20 million a month and today’s money corresponds to around 60 million dollars, Domiguez said that it was difficult for him to refuse the offer and finally started to work for Escobar.

However, this amount of payment has come to Escobar even more and over time Dominguez’e began to pay with drugs instead of the Dominguez, he is no longer a smuggler, but also the seller, but also the drug he carries, sells, collected money, he said that he did not need.

‘They would bring me the car that suits the shirt I decided to wear that day’

Dominguez, who conveyed those days, said 30 Lamborghini brand vehicle. Also Dominguez,

« I used to wear it. he said.