The Attorney General of Ecuador, Diana Salazar, ordered the police to locate and arrest for investigation purposes Jorge Glas, a former vice president in the government of Rafael Correa (2007-2017), who was already in prison between 2017 and 2022 for alleged corruption.
In a letter circulated on social networks, Salazar orders the General Commander of the Police, César Zapata, to coordinate the actions to “locate, locate, immobilize and transfer” Glas to the prosecutor’s office. Court No. 2, located at the headquarters of the Public Ministry in Quito.
The request to arrest Glas is part of a confidential investigation by the public prosecutor's office, which has requested that Glas be detained without handcuffs and for a period of twelve hours for investigation purposes, as set out in the legislation.
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In the document, Salazar cited the Comprehensive Organic Penal Code, which provides in one of its articles that the prosecutor may “prevent persons whose information is required or suspects from leaving the place for a period not exceeding twelve hours.” to carry out the investigation.
A rumor also circulated on social networks that Glas entered the Mexican embassy in Ecuador this Sunday, which was commented on by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
Given these versions, “the Ecuadorian Foreign Ministry is carrying out the necessary actions with this Government (of Mexico) so that the requests of the Attorney General's Office can be met in relation to the Ecuadorian citizen in question,” the Ministry stated in a message contained in your X- Account (formerly Twitter) was published.
“Ecuador urges the Mexican authorities to invite Mr. Glas to cooperate with police authorities and looks forward to the cooperation that Mexico offers to this end,” he added.
On November 29, Judge Luis Rivera left to the National Assembly (Parliament) by judicial jurisdiction the possibility of opening a new case against former Vice President Glas for embezzlement of public funds, a decision that the prosecutor's office described as “unnecessary and hesitant” because he was no longer an official.
Rivera had sent the assembly a letter asking it to explore the possibility of opening a new trial against Glas, who regained his freedom a year ago after spending five years in prison on convictions for alleged corruption, which the Prisoners as such saw political and legal persecution against him.
Glas had even protested his innocence in two cases of alleged illicit association and bribery after the Brazilian justice system annulled computer evidence from the Odebrecht construction company's corruption network, which also pointed to the former Ecuadorian vice president.
The latest request for Glas's arrest by the Attorney General came a few days after the court ordered the preventive detention of the President of the Judicial Council, Wilman Terán, who was arrested on Thursday as part of the “Metastasis” case for alleged corruption conspiracy in the judiciary. , prison and police system for alleged infiltration and bribery through drug trafficking.
Terán's arrest came amid a dispute within the judiciary over the process of selecting new judges for the National Court, as well as the possibility of a political trial against Attorney General Diana in the National Assembly. Salazar, accused by critics of using her position as a means of persecution, an accusation she has strongly denied.
EFE