QUITO (AP) — The public ministry of Ecuador asked the court on Thursday to imprison 13 of the 14 judges, former judges, judicial officials, practicing lawyers and police accused of corruption and the irregular release of dangerous criminals through abuse of the right.
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The suspects were accused of organized crime, illicit enrichment and influence peddling because they filed appeals before judges in small towns demanding constitutional guarantees or arguing violation of rights to achieve the irregular release of dangerous criminal bosses or those responsible for emblematic cases of corruption.
The attorney general, Diana Salazar, had said in ”.
The 14 people were arrested after 25 raids carried out in the provinces of El Oro, Azuay, Manabí, Pichincha, Chimborazo, Tungurahua, Guayas and Santo Domingo de los Tsáchilas, where the prosecution collected evidence such as computers, documents and other elements.
At the end of last year the prosecutor’s office uncovered a case that revealed a significant penetration of drug trafficking in the justice system, police, politics and even in this institution, in which 52 people are accused.
The investigation originated after the public ministry seized cell phones and managed to access the messages of drug trafficker Leandro Norero, who was murdered in October 2022 in a prison, in whose messages such links were evident.
The prosecution also investigates and has revealed the main cases of corruption in recent years, especially in the governments of former presidents Rafael Correa (2007-2017), Lenín Moreno (2017-2021) and Guillermo Lasso (2021-2023), with some of its main officials in prison or escaped from the country.
2024-04-04 14:32:52
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