Yaku Pérez, a former candidate in Ecuador, says he has documents that compromise Guillermo Lasso

The former Ecuadorian presidential candidate Yaku perez advanced this Tuesday that he will reveal documents that, in his opinion, “seriously compromise” the head of state, Guillermo Lasso, with supposed tax havens.

“Tomorrow we will make a presentation of fresh documents, from Panama, that seriously compromise Mr. Lasso that he has ties in tax havens in both Panama and South Dakota, “he said without further details to the press during a demonstration in Quito.

The brief announcement comes days after a commission of the National Assembly considered that, by not appearing, the head of state “obstructs” the investigation of the case of Pandora’s papers, in which his name appears.

Lasso, investigated by the Pandora papal authorities, had already communicated on Thursday that he would not attend the second summons that the Commission had made “under the law”, which on Friday met only on a formal basis to publicly read the presidential office.

One of the arguments made in the first presidential letter, on Wednesday, with his first summons, was that he offered to answer the Commission’s questions at the Government Palace and after all the other witnesses and experts had appeared.

The publication of Pandora’s papers, which attribute to Lasso properties in tax havens until 2017, led to a stir on the national political scene, with calls from the opposition, especially the one linked to former President Rafael Correa, (2007-2017) to who resigns or is deposed by the Assembly.

The Ecuadorian president has repeatedly insisted that his properties abroad were known to all and that in 2017 he disposed of them, in response to a law that prohibited it.

The opposition wants to know, however, how exactly he did it, to whom he transferred them, if a crime of front man has been incurred in doing so and, if before 2017, he committed tax evasion or avoidance.

Today’s statements from Pérez they took place in one of the marches taking place in Ecuador against the reforms that Lasso is trying to establish and in demand of a gradual freeze on fuel increases.

The protests occur despite Lasso’s announcement on Friday to suspend the increases, an insufficient measure for social movements, which demand that he freeze them.

“We have come to join in, to tune in to a people that demands urgent changes,” said Pérez, saying that the greatest violence that Ecuadorians experience is economic.

The gigantic “social asymmetries is a violence that is done to the poorest of us and this occurs precisely because while the people are starving, they have no sources of work and flee the country looking for opportunities in other countries, also the dance of the millions flee the country towards tax havens ”, he said.

And he considered that “if there is an economic crisis, if there is no money in the country, it is because some economic elites, with the worst example of the first president extracting silver (money) to tax havens (sic)”.

Pérez advanced that, in the afternoon, he will join the workers’ mobilization in a “peaceful” march.