Career
He is also an American legal resident. He was sentenced to 112 years in prison on August 31, 2011. On August 19, 1975, Succar arrived in the state of Guanajuato with relatives of his, and then relocated to Cancún, which was seeing an explosion in the tourist industry.
He saw his empire grow from a soda stand to a group of four villas, 70 hotel rooms, and one hotel.
His fortune was estimated to be 30 million dollars. After the publication of the expose Demons of Eden by Lydia Cacho, he was associated with Puebla-based Lebanese businessman Kamel Nacif Borge in a sexual exploitation ring.
In 2004 he was detained in Chandler, Arizona, and extradited to Mexico by a request of the attorney general and Interpol. He was accused of child pornography, child sexual abuse and statutory rape. and was finally sentenced to 112 years in prison on charges of child pornography and corruption of minors.
As per Mexican law, he would serve 60 years of that sentence.