"It's Just a Business": the Daily Chats – and the Dramas – of an International Cocaine Trafficking Gang

levif.be

Factuality

Ownership

Thousands of messages from the Sky ECC encrypted communication service, to which the OCCRP journalist collective was able to access, reveal the internal workings of a crime syndicate that was passing cocaine from Ecuador to Europe. They reveal, in particular, how the organisation managed to infiltrate the Ecuadorian police and ports. The post "It's not well done, my friend": behind the scenes of a daily gang of cocaine traffickers appeared first…

Plan V

Factuality

Ownership

From contracts with suppliers to logistical problems. The detail of Albanian Dritan Gjika’s operations, accused of drug trafficking and money laundering in Ecuador, is found in thousands of chats that on Wednesday, May 13, has exposed in an investigation the Organized Crime and Corruption Complaint Project (OCCRP). This international journalist organization had access to hundreds of pages of records of the chats of the SkyECC encrypted messaging…

infoLibre.es

Factuality

Ownership

A week has passed and Dritan Gjika, an alleged cocaine boss known as Tony, is still waiting for him to be paid. “Sir, yesterday your partner told me that money was passing, then told me today,” Gjika tells a business partner. They’re discussing the sale of “material” that was shipped by container from Ecuador to Spain. When the man tells him to be “quiet” and not to be so “untrusted,” Gjika bursts out, exasperated. “Sir, it’s not mistrust, it’s …