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The government of Ecuador asked permission to Mexico to be able to enter your embassy in Quito And stop Jorge Glasvice president during the presidential term of Rafael belt (2007-2017), who has been in that diplomatic headquarters since last December awaiting a response to his asylum request.
The Ecuadorian Government asked Mexico to allow it to carry out the arrest glass at its embassy in Quito since, if you are granted asylum, “would render in vain all the commitments acquired in international instruments such as the Convention of United Nations against Corruption”as confirmed to EFE by Itamaraty sources.
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In the document, the Itamaraty of Ecuador asks the ambassador of Mexico, Raquel Serurhis consent “for the forces of order (Police), which depend on the Ministry of the Interior, to enter the premises of the (diplomatic) mission and proceed to capture Mr. Jorge David Glas Espinénordered by the National Court of Justice of Ecuador.”
Before making this request, the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Ecuador, Gabriela Sommerfeldhad already predicted weeks before that, if Mexico granted him asylum, the Government of Daniel Noboa would not grant safe passage to glass left the country without being detained.
Glas, who was released at the end of 2022 after serving five years in prison for two convictions for bribery and illicit association of eight and six years in prison respectively, is being prosecuted for alleged embezzlement in the case’Reconstruction‘from the coastal province of Manabí after the 2016 earthquake.
By mid-December 2023, glasswho considers himself innocent and a persecuted political victim of ‘legal war‘, arrived at the Embassy of Mexico in Quitowhen there was still no warrant for his arrest.
In early January, a judge ordered that he be placed in pre-trial detention in connection with the reconstruction of Manabi
To look for Prosecutor’s office determined that there would be abuse of public money for the benefit of third parties, individuals and legal entities, who were contractors and inspectors of the contracts signed.
Glas spent five years and four months in prison after being sentenced to eight years for bribery in the caseBribes‘, where he was also disqualified and condemned beltsix years ago for illicit association related to the Brazilian construction company bribery scandal Odebrecht.
The former vice president, who held the position during part of Correa’s term and the first few months of Correa’s term Lenin Moreno (2017-2021), said he will try to reverse this case after the Federal Court of Justice in Brazil cancel computer system tests Odebrecht.
The asylum application presented by glass remember the case of the former Correísta minister Maria de los Ángeles Duartealso convicted in the case ‘Bribes‘, who for almost two and a half years was housed with her youngest son at the residence of the ambassador of Argentina waiting for the Government of that country to resolve your asylum request.
At the end of 2022, the government of the then Peronist president Alberto Fernández granted him asylum, but the executive of the conservative Ecuadorian president Guilherme Lasso He denied her safe passage, so the former minister left Ecuador without local authorities noticing until she arrived Venezuela.
This generated strong diplomatic tension between Argentina It is Ecuadorwho reciprocally expelled the ambassadors and only managed to appoint new heads of mission four months later.
Source: Elcomercio
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