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"The Black Eagle", who is the Albanian who sold drugs and was registered as a fruit trader in Ecuador?

2025-12-16 23:10:21 / AKTUALITET ALFA PRESS

"The Black Eagle", who is the Albanian who sold drugs and was

Albanian Përparim Billa will appear in court on December 18, 2025, accused in a case related to organized crime and international drug trafficking, as part of a vast criminal network with global reach.

Billa was first arrested in 2010 during the US operation “Black Eagle”, one of the FBI’s biggest crackdowns on the Albanian mafia in the United States. At the time, he was registered in Ecuador as a fruit trader, while investigations revealed that he was part of a criminal organization with branches in Albania, Kosovo, North Macedonia, Serbia, Canada, the Netherlands and the US.

The operation ended with the indictment of 26 people and the coordinated arrest of 17 of them in several cities in New Jersey and New York. The main targets were Kujtim Lika (“Timmy”) and Myfit Dika (“Mike”), who were captured years later in Toronto, Canada.

The investigations uncovered a sophisticated network involved in drug trafficking, arms trafficking, cigarette smuggling and money laundering. During the operation, over 30,000 ecstasy pills, heroin, methamphetamine, firearms were seized and attempts to import large quantities of narcotics were documented.

Përparim Billa pleaded guilty on September 1, 2009, to cigarette smuggling and was sentenced in 2010 by the District Court of New Jersey to 1 year and 1 day in prison and 2 years of probation. After serving his sentence in the US, he moved to Latin America.

Court documents from 2025 show that Billa had established activity in Ecuador, where he was registered as a fruit wholesaler and had opened a business in Quito. He is also linked to a company in the United Arab Emirates, through which an import was made in 2020.

Ecuadorian and international authorities link Billa to the expansion of the Albanian mafia in Latin America, especially after the arrest in May 2025 of Dritan Gjika, considered one of the leaders of the Albanian mafia in Ecuador.

The hearing for the indictment of Përparim Billë will be held on December 18, 2025, at 2:00 PM, where he will face charges of organized crime and drug trafficking, along with citizens from Serbia and Ecuador.

The case involving Billa is related to a file launched in September 2025, which exposes a multi-million dollar network of corruption and cocaine trafficking to Europe.

 

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