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The former president of Ecuador Rafael Corrêa (2007-2017) stated this Saturday that his former vice president Jorge Glasdetained on Friday night inside the Mexican Embassy in Quitois being transferred to Guayaquil comply with the court decision that ordered his entry into preventive detention.
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“They take him to Guayaquil for Jorge Glas. Impressive display of this criminal government!“, wrote Correo about his former vice president, who spent the night detained in the Police Unit. Flagrance under strong security measures in the center of the Ecuadorian capital.
belt added that “Jorge has trouble walking because he was hit, this is all crazy” and pointed out that “no matter how vain he is (the current president Danilo“Noboa, it is stupid to believe that he will remain unpunished,” it ended.
No authority to Ecuador has so far confirmed the location of glasswho was staying at Mexican Embassy in Ecuador until Friday night he was detained by the Ecuadorian Police, who forcibly entered that diplomatic delegation after the Mexican government granted him the political asylum he had glass had requested.
glasswho is now being prosecuted for alleged embezzlement (misappropriation of public funds) in the ‘Reconstruction’ case of the province of Manabí after the 2016 earthquake, was transferred to the Flagrancy Unit in armored vehicles.
On Saturday morning, several armored vehicles, one of them similar to the one that entered the Embassy last night, left the Flagrant Unit amidst strong security.
No authority has confirmed whether the former vice president during part of the Government of Rafael Corrêa (2007-2017) and at the beginning of the Administration of Lenin Moreno (2017-2021), was in one of these vehicles.
After the invasion of his embassy in Quito, the president of Mexico, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, announced the severing of diplomatic relations with Ecuador.
Glas spent almost five years in prison between 2017 and the end of 2022, to serve two sentences for corruption cases of eight and six years in prison, respectively, for the crimes of bribery and illicit association in the irregular financing of the correct party and within the scope of the international corruption case of the Brazilian construction company Odebrecht.
The former vice president has always rejected the accusations and convictions against him and from the beginning declared himself politically persecuted and a victim of ‘legal war‘ (use of the judicial apparatus against political opponents), which is why he requested political asylum in Mexico.
In the same sentence for bribery He was also sentenced to eight years in prison and politically disqualified the former president beltwho has refugee status in Belgiumfrom where he also denounces political persecution against him and people close to him during his government.
Source: Elcomercio
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