Former Vice President of Ecuador Jorge Glas transferred to La Roca maximum security prison

Jorge Glasthe former vice president of Ecuador during part of the presidential term of Rafael Corrêawas transferred this Saturday to the La Roca maximum security prison, in Guayaquilafter being detained on Friday night inside the Embassy of Mexicowhere he received political asylum, a fact that led the Mexican Government to break diplomatic relations with the Andean country.

In the early hours of this Saturday, glass He left in an armored vehicle and under strong security towards the airport of Quitowhere he was boarded on an aircraft destined for Guayaquilwhere is the maximum security prison The rock.

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The prison of destiny glass was confirmed in a statement by andl National Service for Comprehensive Care for Persons Deprived of Liberty (SNAI), the State penitentiary body, which will comply with the preventive detention order that weighed on the former vice president.

glass He is accused of alleged embezzlement (misappropriation of resources) in the case ‘Reconstruction‘from the coastal province of Manabiafter the strong earthquake that occurred in 2016.

He must also serve a sentence of eight years in prison, after the Ecuadorian court would not grant him the benefit of pre-freedom after having consolidated into a single sentence the sentences for bribery and illicit association that have become final and unappealable, of eight and six years in prison, respectively.

The first refers to the case ‘Bribes‘, about the alleged irregular financing of the ruling party, Alianza País, in a sentence in which he was also convicted and politically disqualified beltthat counts in Belgium with refugee status.

The second is framed in the case Odebrechtthe international corruption network of this Brazilian construction company, over which Glas fights to achieve his innocence after in Brazil O Justice invalidate as evidence the company’s computer system with the pseudonyms of the bribe recipients.

Glas had also received a third sentence of eight years in prison for the crime of embezzlement in the case ‘Singue‘, referring to the negotiation of contracts for the allocation of an oil field, but this decision was later annulled.

For these phrases glass He was imprisoned for around five years between 2017 and 2022, until he was released with a precautionary measure issued by a judge.

The former vice president, who held the position between 2013 and 2017 during his term in office belt and then in the first months of the presidential term of Lenin Moreno (2017-2021), always rejected the convictions and accusations by declaring himself politically persecuted and a victim of ‘legal war‘ (use of the judicial apparatus against political opponents).

This is why since mid-2023 it was in Mexican Embassy in Ecuador to request asylum, which was granted this Friday by the Government of Andrés Manuel López Obrador, at a time of maximum tension in relations between the two countries.

One day before the Ecuadorian president’s government Daniel Noboa had announced the expulsion of the Mexican ambassador, Raquel Serurafter that López Obrador gave testimony reporting the assassination of the presidential candidate Fernando Villavicencio with the results of last year’s elections, which Noboa won in the second round over the Correís candidate Luisa González.

To stop glassthe Ecuadorian Police invaded and forcibly entered the diplomatic headquarters of Mexico in Quitowhat López Obrador described it as a violation of Mexican sovereignty and international law, which is why he chose to break diplomatic relations with Ecuador.

Source: Elcomercio

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