For his part, the president of the Ecuadorian National Court of Justice, Ivan Saquicela, announced on Friday that he had signed the day before “the order initiating the extradition process, as it corresponds to the law, of Rafael Vicente Correa“.
The next step is “that at the diplomatic level, the necessary and indispensable measures be taken so that the extradition takes place“from Belgium, he explained in an interview with the Teleamazonas television channel.
The former president has always claimed his innocence and denounces a plot fomented by his rival, his former vice-president and successor to the presidency, Lenin Moreno. He had formally requested asylum in Belgium at the end of 2018.
“We have a firm sentence. There is the agreement with Belgium and the international agreements, plus the law on extradition, which support our request in strict law. There is no value judgment here“, said Ivan Saquicela.
Rafael Correa reacted to this announcement on his Twitter account and described the head of the National Court of Justice as “clown” and of “puppet” of the government.
Rafael Correa is also being prosecuted in Colombia for the short-lived kidnapping of an opponent there in 2012.
