Investigation Links Noboa Family Banana Firm to Cocaine Shipments

OCCRP and MercoPress report on Ecuadorian police documents and intercepted Balkan trafficker communications showing more than half a ton of cocaine — worth an estimated €26 million — was smuggled in banana containers exported by Noboa Trading, part of the Noboa family's Noboa Corporation, between 2020 and 2022. President Noboa's family denies knowing wrongdoing; the reporting journalist, Andrés Durán, leaves the country citing death threats.