2023-10-09 04:52:02
QUITO (AP) — A witness to the murder of Ecuador’s presidential candidate Fernando Villavicencio identified the alleged mastermind by name and other details of the homicide last August, the prosecutor’s office reported Sunday.
The Public Ministry indicated in a statement on the social network
The testimony includes who “would have given the order to commit the crime,” which is why the investigation will begin to determine the intellectual authors of the crime, the report added.
The agency also indicated that, following 60 days, it concluded the investigation stage to determine the material authors of the murder, and in which 13 detainees are being prosecuted, including the seven who were murdered between Friday and Saturday. The Prosecutor’s Office must now request a date for the trial hearing.
The government ordered on Saturday that the six detainees related to the case who remain alive be transferred to an unidentified prison for security reasons. The above following between Friday and Saturday six Colombians who were arrested a few hours following the crime were murdered in the Litoral Penitentiary, and another in a prison in Quito, in circumstances that have not been made public.
Faced with the crisis, President Guillermo Lasso was forced to suspend a diplomatic agenda with Korea following his return from a tour abroad and convened a security table in which he arranged for a change in the high police command. He also dismissed the director of the National Service for Comprehensive Attention to Adults Deprived of Liberty (SNAI).
Earlier, the prosecutor’s office reported the formal charges and a preventive detention order once morest the deputy director of the penitentiary, whom it identified as José Antonio MV
Villavicencio, who was fourth in the electoral polls, was murdered on August 9 while leaving a rally in the north of the capital. Recently, the United States government offered a reward of six million dollars for information that would allow us to locate the material and intellectual authors of the murder.
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