Jorge Glas is transferred to the maximum security prison, La Roca, where Pablo Muentes and Francisco Barreiro are held.

The former vice president, Jorge Glas, is transferred this Saturday to the maximum security prison, The rock, following being arrested at the Mexican Embassy located in Quito. Throughout the early morning, he remained in the Flagrancy Unit.

A Police source confirmed to Metro Ecuador that the National Service for Comprehensive Attention to Adults Deprived of Liberty and Adolescent Offenders (SNAI) ordered that Glas be taken to that prison.

#06Abril I Moment in which Jorge Glas leaves the Flagrancy Unit, in Quito, to transfer him to the La Roca prison.
Last night he was arrested at the Mexican Embassy
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— Metro Ecuador (@MetroEcuador) April 6, 2024

Also in La Roca prison is Francisco Barreiro Abad, son of the vice president, Verónica Abad, who is being investigated for allegedly having participated in the crime of offering to carry out influence peddling.

Other tenants of La Roca are Pablo Muentes, former Christian Social legislator and defendant in the Purga case. Likewise Wilman Terán, former president of the Judiciary Council and prosecuted in the Métastasis case.

Jorge Glas is taken to Guayaquil, in a small plane of the Ecuadorian Air Force, with a strong police guard and a security ring. pic.twitter.com/skd5LPWut7

— Metro Ecuador (@MetroEcuador) April 6, 2024

Likewise, Carlos Edwin Angulo Lara, alias ‘Invisible’, from the terrorist organization ‘Los Lobos’ and linked to the crime of Fernando Villavicencio.

Diplomatic crisis

The entry of the Ecuadorian authorities into the Mexican Embassy and the subsequent arrest of Glas led to a moment of maximum tension in relations between both countries, following the Government had expelled the Mexican ambassador for statements by Andrés Manuel López Obrador, regarding the murder of candidate Fernando Villavicencio and the effect on the elections won by the young businessman, 36 years old.

Just yesterday, the Mexican Government granted Glas the political asylum he had requested but the current Government did not grant him safe passage to travel.

Glas was under a preventive detention order for a case of alleged corruption in which he is currently being prosecuted, following having spent nearly five years in prison between 2017 and 2022 for two current convictions for crimes that he rejects considering that he is a victim of a political persecution once morest him.