Xavier Muñozwho has been in preventive detention since the end of December 2023, is no longer a member of the judiciary Council having submitted his resignation on February 15.
The Judiciary communicated this information on social networks, indicating that Muñoz sent this document to Council for Citizen Participation and Social Control. Solanda Goyeshis substitute member, will replace him in the following plenary sessions.
According to Ecuavisa, Muñoz He is in prison 4 in Quito, like Wilman Teránfor apparently having committed the crime of obstruction of justice, for having approved the dismissal of the judge of the National Court, Walter Maciaswith two votes out of five that make up the Council.
Beyond the criminal process, Muñoz He earned the questioning of social networks for meeting on one occasion since Miamiin an alleged state of drunkenness and his excuse generated more criticism.
Since then, he has been pursuing a discourse of persecution by the Prosecutor’s Office. He reiterated this in May, when five of his properties were raided as part of a money laundering investigation.
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