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EMRI/ Albanian citizen arrested in Peru for directing cocaine trafficking to Europe
2026-03-20 23:27:14 / AKTUALITET
Peruvian authorities have arrested an Albanian in Peru who controlled cocaine trafficking to Europe. Dybeli was arrested as part of a police operation aimed at cracking down on a gang involved in drug trafficking. According to investigations, Dybeli was the gang's financier and used a false name with Italian citizenship.
Foreign media write that the Albanian mafia arrived in Latin American territories in the late 1990s and early 2000s, after the fall of communism in Albania and the wars in the Balkans. These networks have connections with coca growers, cocaine collectors and traders in Peru, producers in Colombia, groups that store drugs up to the ports of Ecuador and powerful Mexican cartels.
According to the article, the Albanian mafia is just one of the Balkan groups that have a presence in Latin America to supply Europe with cocaine.
Full article from La Republica.pe
Criminal networks from the Balkans are established in Peru and are considered among the main traffickers of cocaine towards Europe. This was evidenced by the Second Office of the Third Specialized Prosecutor's Office for Crimes of Illicit Drug Trafficking (Fetid) in Callao, which managed to secure 18 months of detention for suspected members of a criminal gang that had accumulated cocaine to export to this continent. Rómulo Mengoni, Juan Vásquez, Shirley Ibáñez and Efraen Mendoza would be part of a criminal group led by Albanian citizen Maglent Dybeli.
In a second apartment, Ibáñez and Mendoza were also arrested, who were involved in the alleged scheme to transport illegal substances. The latter had stayed in Colombia for three months to coordinate and guarantee that the drugs were exported from the main port.
The first two, according to the Public Ministry, were arrested by the anti-drug police in an apartment in Callao, where they found 98 brick-shaped packages of cocaine hydrochloride, which had been transported from Comas.
During this operation, it was determined that Maglent Dybeli was the financier of the gang and that he was using a false name with Italian citizenship. The Police and the Prosecution continue investigations into the involvement of other foreign and Peruvian citizens in this case.
The Assistant Provincial Prosecutor, Pako Grajeda, also managed to prove with strong and well-founded elements the connection between the defendants and the criminal offenses, making it possible to impose a detention measure against them while the investigations continue.
According to Dirandro, the Albanian mafia arrived in the region in the late 1990s and early 2000s, following the fall of communism in Albania and the wars in the Balkans, according to a report by the Global Initiative against Transnational Organized Crime (GI-TOC).
Today, these networks have links to coca growers, cocaine collectors and dealers in Peru, producers in Colombia, groups that store the drugs all the way to Ecuadorian ports, and powerful Mexican cartels. The Albanian mafia is just one of the Balkan groups that have a presence in Latin America to supply Europe with cocaine.
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