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Ecuadorian media have devoted another article to the action of a few days ago, where a group allegedly led by Dritan Gjika was hit. The article shows how a network of businesses was used to launder money and influence the highest levels of politics.
On May 5, 2021, in the middle of a drug trafficking investigation, the National Police traced a meeting at the Osaka Fish Company, in Manta (Manabí). This was part of what became known as the 'Trojan Lion' incident. In that company, a fish product dealer apparently agreed to use the containers for drug trafficking.
At that meeting, according to the police report, arrived Joseph V., known as 'Secretary', Ruben Cherres, known as 'Oilman', Dritan Gjika, known as 'Albanian' and Victor L., known as ' Lion'. In addition, Danilo Carrera, a friend of Cherres and brother-in-law of former president Guillermo Lasso, was also under investigation in that case.
In January 2022, the Prosecutor's Office closed the investigations based on a police report. But a month later and after a scandal over the leak of confidential information, the case was reopened. But it joined the "Encuentro" file, where it was suspected that a corruption structure had been set up by Carrera and Cherres. The latter was killed on March 30, 2023.
After the merger of the 'León de Troya' and 'Encuentro' files, the Prosecutor's Office explained that in the investigation of the first case they did not find enough evidence to file a charge of drug trafficking. But elements were found that could be used to investigate corruption. Apparently, the suspicions about Cherre's closeness to the Albanian mafia in a drug trafficking operation were left behind. But, three months later, it was revealed that the Police and the Prosecutor's Office had opened a new investigation with an international scope.
In the early morning of February 6, 2024, Ecuadorian and Spanish authorities carried out Operation Pampa. 30 people were arrested and a criminal group led by the Albanian Dritan Gjika, an associate of Rubén Cherres, was dismantled.
According to police, this structure set up a business network in Ecuador to cover its illegal operations. The group acquired several companies since 2014. These were export companies that were focused on transporting exotic fruits and other export products. In this way, they managed to divert attention from the drug loads, which were camouflaged among the fruits. 18 people were arrested in Ecuador. 15 were prosecuted for organized crime and five for money laundering. Only two names are repeated in both cases: Julio Lalangui and Jonnathan Landívar.
In the money laundering process, the judge ordered a freeze and temporary ban on the transfer, conversion, alienation or movement of funds, assets, investments and shares related to four companies.
According to the investigation, these and other companies were allegedly used to launder money. The business structure consisting of six companies in Ecuador and four in Spain could not justify more than 30 million dollars.
Although the Police only talk about six companies in Ecuador and the justice system ordered intervention in four companies, official documents show that the business network of the Albanians and Rubén Cherres is much larger.
After the scandal of the León de Troya case, in December 2022, the Parliamentary Front Against Corruption (FPA) released an investigative report called 'From the case of the meeting in León de Troya'. At the head of this work was Fernando Villavicencio, who at that time chaired the Supervisory Commission of the Assembly and eight months later was killed in the middle of the electoral campaign, in which he sought to become President of the Republic.
The report mentioned the companies Agricomtrade, Cannmaná and Carni Produccion as well as Dritan Gjikaën, Rubén Cherres, Julio Lalangui and Jonnathan Landívar, who are now the main actors in this new corruption plot. On May 18, 25, 27 and 28 and June 8, 10, 15 and 17, 2021, they met at the 'Sky' building in Guayaquil, where several Cherres and Gjika companies are headquartered.
In those meetings, in addition to Çerra and Gjika, there was also Lalangui, alias Agronomy. And two other people identified as Mario V. and Pablo H. In addition, the FPA discovered many other companies that are part of the suspected business network that Gjika and Cherres have put together to cover drug trafficking and launder the profits of this crime. /Adapted "Pamphlet" from " Primacias "
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