Carlos Polit owes USD 40.4 million to Ecuador. The National Court He imposed that payment on him in 2018 along with his six-year prison sentence as the author of the crime of bribery in the corruption plot of Odebrecht.
Collecting that money will be impossible, since the sentence was carried out the Attorney General’s Office has promoted actions to recover it, but only in January 2024 did the National Court request the Quito Property Registry to certify what assets you have Polit. The document was sent in March and yesterday the Attorney General’s Office insisted on the forced seizure.
Even if one day the procedure is completed, the recovery will be negligible. In Ecuadorthe former comptroller is the owner of suite 52 of the Swissotel where he received bribes from Odebrecht from the hands of the former director of the company Jose Conceisao Santos, plus a parking lot and a warehouse in the same building. A similar asset is currently selling for USD 130,000, 0.3% of what you owe.
The claim for the goods that Polit bought in USA laundering bribe money will be more difficult. Ecuador can activate the United Nations conventions against corruption that allow the return of assets to the affected country, but for that the Ecuador must complete a long procedure that proves that the money Polit used in Miami it belongs to.
According to Ecuavisain the money laundering trial that Polit just lost in Floridathe North American Prosecutor’s Office is pursuing his assets, so far the federal jury has only accepted the confiscation of this four-story building located in the Coral Waydue to the evidence that it was bought with dirty money from bribes from Odebrecht. But there are five other goods related to Carlos Polit which are property of your son Jhon Polit or companies linked to him that are in the crosshairs of American justice.
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