Reporter Stephen Wright revisits an investigation he conducted in Guayaquil, Ecuador, in late 2022, looking at links between cocaine trafficking there and the cocaine trade in Britain. In coverage of his latest “On The Case” podcast, Wright describes the work as one of the most dangerous assignments of his career and recounts how the investigation focused on organised criminal activity connected to drug shipments to Europe.
The accounts say that, over the previous decade, Albanian gangs are reported to have increasingly partnered with local organised crime networks in Ecuador. This collaboration is described as playing a role in moving cocaine toward European markets, with Britain part of the wider supply chain Wright says he sought to understand.
Across the outlets provided, the emphasis is largely on Wright’s personal recounting of the investigation and the perceived risks in Guayaquil, rather than on new, independently detailed findings. Both sources align on the timing of the trip and the broad claim about Albanian gangs working with local criminal groups to traffic cocaine to Europe, with Britain included in that context.
