Ecuadorian judge denies pre-release appeal to Jorge Glas, Correa’s former vice president

Ecuadorian judge Melissa Muñoz denied this Thursday the pre-release appeal requested by Jorge Glasformer vice president of the Government of Rafael Corrêa (2007-2017) who took refuge as a “guest” in the embassy of Mexico in Quitoawaiting an asylum procedure.

The judge of Penitentiary Guarantees denied the request presented by the defense of glass after analyzing reports from the state penitentiary service on the situation of the former vice president during the more than five years he remained in prison, after being convicted in two trials for alleged corruption.

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glass He was imprisoned between 2017 and 2022 and had requested pre-launch considering that he has already served more than 40% of the sentence and other requirements to obtain this benefit.

The former vice president was sentenced to six years for a case of “illicit association”, linked to the corruption scandal of the Brazilian construction company Oderbrechteight years ago in another bribery trialabout financing illegal of your political group.

glass managed to unify the two sentences into a single sentence and in November 2022 He was released after protective action (semi-freedom) welcomed by a judge.

He SNAIin turn, announced yesterday, Wednesday, that he appeared before a judge in the tropical province of Santo Domingo of the Tsáchilas a petition to revoke precautionary measures that benefit Glas.

The prison service considered that the judge who authorized such measures in favor of Glas in November last year is now linked to a case known as “Metastasis”, which investigates the infiltration of organized crime and drug trafficking in the judicial, penitentiary and police systems.

According to him SNAIthe request to revoke the precautionary measures that help Glas is due to the fact that he failed to comply with the order to appear in a prison in Guayaquil.

And it is that glass is located in Mexican Embassy in Quito since December 17th, shortly after the Public Prosecutor’s Office asked the Police to locate, detain and immobilize him, without handcuffing him, as part of a confidential investigation.

Glas’ lawyer, Edison Loaiza, after closing the hearing this Thursday, announced that he appealed the judge’s decision Muñoz considering that your sentence is “unfair It is unmotivated” and this contradicts a decision from last February, when the same judge combined the former vice president’s two sentences.

According to the lawyer, Glas should have received pre-freedom on December 14, 2020, but said this did not happen due to conflicting reports from the SNAI.

By him, Loaiza indicated that the judge Muñoz incurred a “error”when applying the regulation and issuing its decision, to which it appealed so that the case can be considered by a Superior Court.

The lawyer said he trusts that the superior judges will realize the judge’s error and correct their decision, which includes the request for Glas’ location and capture.

Loaiza highlighted that his client “give up” to voluntarily submit to the prison authorities as, in addition, you will have to wait for the outcome of the appeal.

In prision “your life and integrity are at risk”, said the lawyer glass.

Source: Elcomercio

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