COLOMBIAN media about Dritan Gjika: The LUXURY life in Dubai of the powerful Albanian crime boss!

2025-06-13 11:03:41Aktualitet SHKRUAR NGA REDAKSIA VOX
"Tony": Dritan Gjika

Dritan Gjika was arrested on May 26 in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates.

Known as "Tony", Gjika has also been mentioned by heads of state including Colombian President Gustavo Petro.

Colombian President Gustavo Petro mentioned Gjika's name on May 28, 2025, calling him part of a ' drug trafficking steering board ' that includes Croatian, Serbian, French, Dutch, Colombian, American and Albanian citizens.

From documents and confidential sources obtained by the newspaper El Tiempo , it appears that Gjika moved between Istanbul, Guayaquil (Ecuador), Dubai, Bogota, Tirana and Cali, using false passports, shell businesses and different identities.

He has entered and exited Colombia dozens of times, where he has connections to cocaine trafficking networks in Cali and Valle del Cauca, and from there the drugs were transported towards the border with Ecuador, a country that Gjika used as a safe base.

In Guayaquil, he created four companies, Agricontrade SA, Cresmark SA, Cannmaná SA and Negoglobal SA, with the purpose of cultivating cannabis and exporting minerals, which, according to investigations, served as a cover for smuggling cocaine to Europe.

Gjika and his wife Ashley Ruiz, an Ecuadorian citizen, purchased a luxury villa outside Guayaquil, where authorities seized several armored vehicles, including: BMW X6 (value: 120,000 USD), armored Porsche Cayenne (value: 149,990 USD, in the name of Agricontrade), Chevrolet Corvette, Yacht 'Recreo' (Sea Ray Sundancer 310), purchased in 2020 for 50,000 USD.

This standard of living was financed through drug trafficking, while bank accounts and assets were disguised under the names of companies and family members.

According to federal sources, Gjika had a Colombian associate known as 'JR', who had previously been arrested by the DEA in the US.

Now he is wanted again and is suspected of being the main supplier of cocaine that passed from Colombia to the European ports of Algeciras (Spain), France, the Netherlands and all the way to Albania.

'After the first arrest, 'JR' changed his identity and returned to trafficking. New investigations have revealed his direct links to Dritan Gjika,' an anti-drug officer told El Tiempo.

Gjika's name has also been mentioned in the context of the investigation into the murder of Paraguayan prosecutor Marcelo Pecci in Colombia.

President Petro has named Uruguayan drug trafficker Sebastián Marset as involved in the assassination and suggested that the Peçi file was manipulated, while Colombian and Paraguayan authorities have opened a joint investigative line.

The arrest of Dritan Gjika has revived concerns about the network of traffickers sheltered in Dubai and Abu Dhabi, where many of them use false passports, front companies and fake investments to hide drug money.



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