Jorge Glas, the former vice president and bishop of Correa who raised the crisis between Ecuador and Mexico

The former vice president of Ecuador Jorge Glasone of the strong men of the Government of Ecuador during the presidential term of Rafael Corrêa (2007-2017), is once again detained, as he has been for most of the more than six years since he left office, involved in convictions and accusations of corruption that he denounces as political persecution and ‘lawfare”.

His latest arrest, which occurred on Friday night, resulted in Mexico break diplomatic relations with Ecuadorafter the President’s Government Daniel Noboa stormed the Mexican embassy in Quito capture glassa few hours after the administration of the Mexican president, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, granted him the political asylum he had requested.

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This occurred at a time of maximum tension, after the Ecuadorian Government expelled the Mexican ambassador, Raquel Serurfor some statements of López Obrador where he reported the murder of the candidate Fernando Villavicencio with the electoral victory of Noboathat the Correísta candidate won in the second round Luisa González.

At the time glass is accused of alleged embezzlement (misappropriation of public resources) in the case ‘Reconstruction‘ from the coastal province of Manabí, the most affected by the strong earthquake that occurred in 2016, for which a judge ordered his arrest and entry into preventive detention after remaining in the Mexican Embassy.

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An old friendship with Correa

Glas, 54, is an electronics engineer and became friends with Correa since his youth as part of a group of ‘scout‘ in the port city of Guayaquil, where the two are originally from.

Thus, he was part of the Government of belt from the beginning, as president of the Solidarity Fund (2007-2009), and then as Minister of Telecommunications and Information Society (2009-2010) and Minister of Coordination of Strategic Sectors (2010-2012).

So he formed with belt the electoral binomial of candidates for president and vice-president of the political party in power, Alianza País, for the 2013 elections, and after the electoral victory completing the four years in office (2013-2017) and then repeat the victory with Lenin Moreno in 2017.

However, soon Dark removed from all his duties glass when accusations and signs of corruption began to accumulate against him, and in September 2017 the vice president was placed in preventive detention and was removed from office.

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Three convictions, two still valid

Court proceedings continued over the following years while he remained imprisoned and racked up up to three convictions, although one of them was later overturned.

He was sentenced for the first time at the end of 2017 to six years in prison for illicit association in Odebrecht caseand then, in 2020, to eight years in prison for bribery in the ‘caseBribes‘, the Alianza País irregular financing plot in which he was also convicted and disqualified beltthat like glass denounces being a victim oflegal war’ and in his case he has refugee status from Belgium.

In 2021 he was also sentenced to another eight years in prison for embezzlement in the ‘case’Singue‘, on the conditions for awarding contracts in this oil block.

During his period in prison, he always tried to find a way to be released, citing a delicate state of health and danger to his life, as the prison crisis in Ecuador became more acute, with frequent massacres between rival criminal gangs who internally control prisons.

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Released with caution

Thus, he was able to leave temporarily imprisonment for 40 days in April 2022thanks to a controversial judicial resolution that was later annulled.

At the end of the same year, another judicial resolution again ordered his release as a precautionary measure until the Court decided whether to grant him the benefit of parole. pre-freedomafter having managed to join the two sentences of the cases’Bribes‘ It is Odebrecht and having served most of the eight years of deprivation of liberty.

However, the Justice He was denied this benefit, so he would have to return to prison to serve his sentence.

Another court decision restored his political rights to be a candidate in the 2023 extraordinary elections and, in this context, glass was chosen first as Correismo presidential candidate for these elections, but refused to run due to the possibility that the resolution that allowed him to run would be annulled.

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Former advisor denounced him for alleged intimidation

At the end of 2023, he was involved in a complaint for alleged intimidation by Soledad Padilhaa former advisor who provided assistance during her time in prison and who, according to the complainant, suffered harassment from glass when he allegedly did not see his interest in formalizing a reciprocated relationship and discovered that he had a romantic relationship with a member of the assembly of the parliamentary group of Correísmo.

Instead of, glass against him he denounced both Padilha by all means extortion alleging this supposedly demanded to receive $350,000 in exchange for the non-disclosure of recordings of some of their conversations that finally came to light.

Source: Elcomercio

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