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Jorge Glassformer vice president and right-hand man of then Ecuadorian President Rafael Corre (2007–2017), was arrested again on Friday, April 5. His status adds to his legal status
Jorge Glassformer vice president and right-hand man of then Ecuadorian President Rafael Corre (2007–2017), was arrested again on Friday, April 5.
His status adds to his legal status over the past seven years, during which he has been implicated in convictions and corruption charges that he calls political persecution and “legality”.
His latest arrest, on Friday night, led Mexico to sever diplomatic relations with Ecuador after the government of President Daniel Noboa stormed the Mexican embassy in Quito to seize Glas, hours after the administration of President Andrés Manuel López Obrador granted him the political asylum he asked for.
This happened at the moment of maximum tension, after The Ecuadorian government expelled Mexican Ambassador Raquel Serurdue to statements by López Obrador in which he linked the murder of candidate Fernando Villavicencio to the election victory of Noboa, who won the second round over Correista candidate Luisa González.
At the moment Glas is accused of alleged embezzlement (misappropriation of public funds) in the Reconstruction case in the coastal province of Manabi.worst hit by a massive earthquake in 2016, which led a judge to order his arrest and detention after he remained in the Mexican embassy.
Glas, 54 years old, electronics engineer and He became friends with Correa from his youth while being part of the Boy Scouts. in the port city of Guayaquil, where they are both from.
So, was part of the Correa government from the very beginningHow President of the Solidarity Fund (2007-2009) and then as Minister of Telecommunications and Information Society (2009-2010) and Coordinating Minister of Strategic Sectors (2010-2012).
Rafael Correa (left) and Jorge Glas (right) stand.
Then, together with Correa, he formed the electoral bin presidential and vice presidential candidates official political entity Country Alliance in the 2013 elections and after winning the elections He was in power for four years (2013–2017) and then repeated his victory with Lenin Moreno in 2017.
However, soon Moreno removed Glas from all his duties when complaints and signs of corruption began to accumulate. against him, and in September 2017 the vice president was placed in preventive detention and removed from office.
The trials continued in subsequent years while he remained in prison and up to three offers have accumulatedalthough one of them was later annulled.
He was first sentenced at the end of 2017 to imprisonment. six years in prison for illegal organization in the Odebrecht caseand then in 2020 eight years’ imprisonment for bribery in the “Bribery” case, conspiracy with irregular financing of Alianza País in which Correa, who like Glas claims to be a victim of “the law” and in his case has refugee status from Belgium, was also convicted and disqualified.
He was also sentenced to prison in 2021. eight more years in prison for embezzlement in the Singe caseon the terms of concluding contracts for this oil block.
While in prison He always tried to find a way to free himself, citing serious health conditions and danger to his life.as the prison crisis in Ecuador has worsened, with frequent massacres between rival criminal gangs that control prisons within the country.
Jorge Glas arrives in court for the Odebrecht case.
So, He managed to be temporarily released from custody for 40 days in April 2022.thanks to a controversial court ruling that was later overturned.
By the end of that year Another court order again required his release as a precaution. until the judge decided whether he was granted provisional release, after it was possible to bring together two verdicts in the cases of “Bribery” and “Odebrecht” and served most of his eight-year sentence.
However Justice denied him this benefit, so he had to return to prison to serve this sentence.
Another court decision restored his political rights to candidate for early elections 2023, and in this context, Glas was chosen in the first place as Correismo’s presidential candidate in this election, but rejected this candidacy due to the possibility that the resolution allowing him to run would be revoked.
At the end of 2023 he participated in complaint of alleged intimidation by Soledad Padillaformer adviser who assisted her during her time in prison and who, according to the applicant, was harassed by Glas allegedly not seeing that his interest in formalizing the relationship is reciprocated and learned that he had a romantic relationship with a member of the Correismo parliamentary group.
Instead, Voice Contra accused both Padillas of alleged extortion, saying he allegedly demanded $350,000 from him in exchange for not releasing recordings of some of their conversations that eventually came to light.
EFE
Source: Aristegui Noticias
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