Ecuador: Prosecutor to request former President Correa to be barred from leaving country

eldiario.ec / (machine translated) Geovanni Atarihuana, director of Popular Unity (UP), today presented a request to the General Prosecutor’s Office to resume investigations into four previous complaints against former President Rafael Correa.

The objective, newspaper El Comercio reported, is for the Prosecutor’s Office to request precautionary measures against the former president and prohibit him from leaving the country.

Atarihuana indicated that, according to his criteria, Correa has responsibility in four cases: for Odebrecht and Petrochina contracts, for ideological falsification in the handling of the external debt and for an alleged influence peddling in the handling of justice.

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On the other hand, César Montúfar, private prosecutor in the trial against Vice President Jorge Glas in the Odebrecht case, said this morning that one of the actions he will take in the process will be to request the connection of former President Correa and also ask for the ban on departure from the country.
“This crime of illicit association would not have happened if Rafael Correa had not named him (Jorge Glas) in the positions he appointed him,” Montúfar said during an interview in Ecuavisa. Read Article