under the appeal of habeas corpus the former vice president of Ecuador, Jorge Glas, was released this Sunday, April 10. Judge Diego Javier Mosco granted the appeal in Santa Elena Multicompetent Unit.
The former vice president, who had been in prison since the end of 2017, was convicted in three cases of corruption, one of them for illicit association related to the bribery scheme of the Brazilian company odebrechtanother for receiving illegal money for his political movement and a third for bribery in a lawsuit related to oil contracts, which is on appeal.
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Regarding his current situation, it has been questioned whether Glass might leave the country. Given this scenario, the Minister of the Interior, Patrick Carrilloindicated that the former official might not leave even Guayaquil.
“Migration is warned, in the ports we have a special device. He cannot leave Guayaquil, not only the country”said Carrillo during an interview with The Post.
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“There are many weaknesses, these technologies were bought by themselves. There are many things that were weakened and today we must rebuild. The Police and State institutions are strategic capacities and as a society we must preserve them”, said Carrillo regarding what happened with Fernando Alvaro years ago.
The legal case of Glas and other leaders of “Correísmo”, including the former president himself, has been considered by that movement as a “political persecution” by Moreno and other right-wing groups critical of the Correa government.
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In a letter released in Ecuador, Sonia Veramember of the international legal defense team of Glassassured that the former vice president is a victim of “lawfare” (judicial persecution).
The granting of “habeas corpus” places “in compliance with article 426 of the Constitution, which orders that the international human rights instruments shall be immediately fulfilled and applied,” Vera pointed out.
