"The dark shadows of cocaine trafficking"/ Who is the narco-diplomat who connected South America with the Albanian mafia, the "DORA" who gave to the Çopjave and the Çela clan!

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"The dark shadows of cocaine trafficking"/ Who is the narco-diplomat
Sebastian Marset

It was no coincidence that Sebastián Marset chose Paraguay as his base.

From the "23 de Abril" farm in Paraguay, he organized shipments, negotiated prices, and coordinated routes with a precision that went beyond the operational aspect.

His role was demographic: he represented South America in the face of a European structure that needed Bolivian cocaine, river logistics, and institutional discretion.

The Southern Envoy: Mars as a Demographic Operator

In that mechanism, the Albanian Çopja-Çela clan was not a client, but a partner.

Led by Franc Çopja, who operated from Dubai with a false passport and local protection, the cartel was part of the Bello Company, a network of at least 14 family clans based in Albania and branches in Belgium, the Netherlands, Germany and Spain.

Çopja was extradited for murder, but his role went beyond that: he was the financial and diplomatic intermediary of a structure that functioned as a multinational crime syndicate.

His brothers, Ervis and Ardian Cela , settled in Paraguay, where they oversaw the logistics of collection and deliveries.

They were not simple operators: they had access to local companies, political contacts, and the ability to move containers from Villeta to Antwerp, Rotterdam, and Hamburg.

Their presence in Paraguay was not secret, but functional: they needed to be close to raw materials and regional partners, among them Mars.

Mars as a supplier: Bolivian cocaine, Paraguayan camouflage and symbolic traceability

Marset offered what the Albanian cartel could not secure on its own: direct access to Bolivian cocaine, reliable operators in Paraguay, and a sophisticated camouflage network.

He coordinated with Diego Benítez, a Paraguayan businessman linked to the Olimpia club, whose company Tupa SA hid the drugs in FOX ink cans.

The symbols on the packaging, “lightning eyes,” “infinity symbol,” and “crowned Singapore,” functioned as internal codes for traceability.

Between 2020 and 2021, two shipments totaled 28 tons of cocaine.

One arrived in Antwerp (11.6 t), the other was seized in Hamburg (16.4 t), the largest seizure in European history.

Conversations included in the court file revealed that Marset negotiated compensation for losses, such as 600 kg stolen in Rotterdam.

His role went beyond traffic: he managed risks, regulated prices and monitored the chain as if it were a commodity market.

Bello Company: mafia interaction and global expansion

The Bello Company network does not operate according to hierarchies, but rather according to interaction. Each clan manages its own district, but cooperates on logistics, protection, and money laundering.

 Europol defines it as a: “decentralized criminal structure with the capacity for institutional penetration and territorial expansion.”

Marset understood this logic and integrated as a regional partner. South America supplied the drugs; Europe, the infrastructure.

The Çopja-Çela clan used shell companies in Dubai, Belgium, and the Dominican Republic to launder assets.

Soni Pepa, the cartel's financial operator, was arrested in Punta Cana and extradited for coordinating shipments from South America. The network invested in hotels, laundries, supermarkets and real estate.

Marset, from Paraguay, offered discretion, territory and a network of operators who spoke the language of smuggling.

Uruguay on traceability: containers, symbols and silence

Uruguay appears in the traceability as a transit and clearing point. Europol and the Dutch Ministry of the Interior warned about containers from Montevideo to Rotterdam.

Symbols similar to those used by the Albanian clan were found in the cargo seized in Uruguay. The connection is not just logistical: it is symbolic.

Montevideo, with its deep-water port and history of seizures, became a silent hub.

Marset, with Uruguayan and Paraguayan citizenship, operated on both sides of the system.

His figure embodied criminal interaction: an envoy who negotiated with Balkan clans, disguised cargo, and designed routes that crossed continents.

Criminal architecture and narcotics diplomacy

Marset didn't just traffic drugs. He built a criminal architecture that connected three continents, five languages, and multiple jurisdictions.

His connection to the Çopja-Çela clan reveals a new form of organized crime: transnational, symbolic, and strategically demographic.

From a farm in Paraguay, a Uruguayan managed to articulate cargoes that ended up in Europe's most monitored ports.

The story is not just police. It is geopolitical. And Marset, far from being just another fugitive, was the envoy of a region that learned to negotiate with the Balkan mafia in its own language.


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