An encrypted chat allegedly between Balkan drug traffickers shows them bragging about having exclusive rights to smuggle cocaine alongside bananas in shipping containers exported by the Ecuadorian president’s family firm.

A confidential Croatian prosecution document shows two people, using the encrypted messenger platform Sky ECC and identified only by anonymous PIN numbers, boasting in a February 2021 chat that “no one but them” was allowed to load cocaine in containers shipped by the Noboa Trading Co TCN S.A.

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Noboa Trading is part of Noboa Corporation, a sprawling business empire that produces bananas under the Bonita brand and is run by the family of Ecuador President Daniel Noboa. Noboa Trading Co. did not respond to questions from reporters, and the office of Pre

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