Cocaine and bananas: Fruit shipments from Ecuador president's family firm allegedly used to smuggle drugs

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At least three containers shipped by Noboa Trading Co., the family company of President Daniel Noboa, transported important cocaine shipments from Ecuador to the Balkans, according to an investigation published on Thursday, December 4, by the Organized Crime and Corruption Complaint Project (OCCRP). The journalistic note reports that the leading thread of this discovery was an encrypted chat of February 2021 in which “presumed drug traffickers f…

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In an encrypted chat in February 2021, alleged drug traffickers from the Balkans boasted of having exclusive rights to traffic cocaine disguised in containers of bananas exported by the family company of the President of Ecuador, Daniel Noboa.A confidential document from the Croatian prosecutor's office registered two people, who used the encrypted messaging platform Sky ECC and who are only identified by anonymous PIN numbers, boasting that "no…

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Balkan drug traffickers had the exclusive right to hide cocaine in shipping containers owned by companies owned by the family of Ecuadorian President Daniel Noboa, according to "sky" messages obtained by KRIK and OCCRP journalists. The post "Sky" messages reveal the connection between Balkan cocaine traffickers and the Ecuadorian president's family business and "Bonita" bananas appeared first on KRIK.