The motion Citizen revolution of Ecuadorled by the previous president Rafael Correa (2007-2017), started this Tuesday the method of a brand new political trial of censorship within the Nationwide Meeting in opposition to the state lawyer common, Diana Salazar.
The assemblyman Hector Valladares He introduced the required paperwork within the Meeting with a brand new request for impeachment in opposition to Salazar, whom he accuses of alleged failure to satisfy his duties.
In accordance with Valladares, the State Prosecutor has not acted on info offered by the Monetary and Financial Evaluation Unit (UAFE)which investigates crimes similar to cash laundering or asset laundering.
The parliamentarian, in a press release, indicated that the UAFE despatched 97 processes to the State Legal professional Basic’s Workplace between 2009 and 2022, however that solely twelve instances have been carried out, of which solely 5 have acquired a courtroom ruling.
He added that in 2019, an quantity of 98.6 million {dollars} was reported to the State Legal professional Basic’s Workplace for cash laundering instances, however he pressured that in these instances “the prosecutor (Salazar) didn’t provoke proceedings.”
He additionally accused the lawyer common of “lack of initiative” to renew the investigation into an asset laundering case often called ‘Copaco’
The Prosecutor’s Workplace, then again, responded to Valladares with one other assertion during which it indicated that the brand new impeachment request lacks assist.
He recalled that the actions of the Public Ministry in opposition to the crime of cash laundering have been acknowledged by worldwide entities such because the Monetary Motion Activity Drive (FATF).
The establishment led by Salazar assured that the entity’s specialised anti-money laundering unit has 32 instances in tax investigation, seven within the preparatory trial stage, twenty-three in courtroom proceedings and eight in problem.
“Solely these figures dismantle what was acknowledged by Assemblyman Valladares”added the Prosecutor’s Workplace, which additionally referred to the case ‘Copaco’which dates again to 2016 and was additionally heard in courts in the US.
On this case it was decided that “the UAFE used false info that it despatched to the Prosecutor’s Workplace, deceiving it” and {that a} courtroom in Guayaquil declared the method null and void, which means that “there was no inaction.”
With the brand new impeachment request “political pursuits are prioritized” and it’s an motion “of those that search impunity,” the State Prosecutor’s Workplace added in its letter.
The announcement of the brand new impeachment request got here a number of hours after prosecutor Salazar turned concerned in an issue with the president of the Oversight Fee of the Nationwide Meeting, the correista Pamela Aguirre.
Throughout an look by Salazar in that parliamentary fee, the meeting member tried to get the previous Correísta parliamentarian to intervene in that very same session Ronny Aleagawith a preventive detention order and linked by the Prosecutor’s Workplace in a community of corruption and alleged hyperlinks between politicians and legal gangs, so Salazar withdrew from the listening to contemplating that it was a political “present” that wished to present the ground to a fugitive from Justice.
Correismo had already promoted on the finish of 2023 a primary request for impeachment in opposition to prosecutor Salazar, who has held the place since 2019.
With Salazar on the helm, the Ecuadorian Prosecutor’s Workplace has carried out a number of corruption proceedings in opposition to the Correa administration, together with the so-called case ‘Bribes’the place the previous president was disqualified and sentenced in 2020 together with different collaborators to eight years in jail for bribery.
The previous president, who repeatedly criticizes the lawyer common, rejected the fees and accusations in opposition to him from the start. The politician considers himself politically persecuted, which is why since 2017 he has resided in Belgium, the place he has refugee standing. EFE (I)
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