Ecuador will receive a part of the millionaire fine imposed in the United States to the multinational company Gunvor, based in Switzerland, which must pay 374.5 million dollars after having pleaded guilty to having delivered bribes abroad, including to Ecuadorian officials.
The sentence includes the cancellation for both Switzerland and Ecuador of up to a quarter of the criminal fine that Gunvor must pay, within the framework of the investigations pending in both nations for crimes related to corruption, the agency said in a statement this Saturday. Ecuadorian Attorney General’s Office.
Gunvor’s conviction in the United States occurred in the context of the case where the former Foreign Trade Manager of the Ecuadorian state oil company Petroecuador Nielsen Arias was also sentenced, whose investigation had the cooperation of the Ecuadorian Prosecutor’s Office, through the exchange of information.
In Ecuador, several former Petroecuador officials, as well as the Gunvor company in Ecuador, face a criminal process known as the ‘Alianza’ case for the crime of bribery, for alleged bribes paid between 2012 and 2020. EFE
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