Former Vice President Jorge Glas’s jail sentence is upheld in Ecuador

Qrather a lotEcuador’s justice system on Monday denied a habeas corpus petition for former Vice President Jorge Glas, who’s serving two jail sentences for corruption and can due to this fact stay in a most safety jail in Guayaquil.

Glas’ legal professionals rejected the choice and requested the decide to grant the previous vice chairman, convicted within the Odebrecht case and one other bribery case, home arrest, which was additionally denied.

The decide argued that it had not been doable to show that the rights of the inmate had been violated. In keeping with his legal professionals, he has acquired 79 consultations from psychologists, cardiologists, pulmonologists and normal practitioners within the three months he has been detained.

“This determination not solely ignores the robust arguments introduced… It additionally underscores the existence of a bias that undermines fundamental rules of justice and equity,” Glas’s protection workforce stated in an announcement, including that in Monday’s listening to, Glas’s cell was riddled with rats and poor sanitary circumstances.

Glas served as vice chairman between 2013 and 2017 throughout Correa’s authorities, after which he was prosecuted by the courts and acquired two sentences for corruption: one in every of six years in jail for the Odebrecht case and one other of eight years for receiving bribes in change for authorizing public works. He’s additionally being prosecuted for a brand new crime of embezzlement of public funds.

To keep away from prosecution, Glas entered the Mexican embassy in Quito on the finish of final yr, however in early April the police raided the embassy and arrested him, resulting in the breaking off of diplomatic relations and mutual lawsuits earlier than the Worldwide Court docket of Justice. Shortly earlier than the raid, Glas had been granted asylum.

Days after his uncommon arrest, Glas, 54, was admitted to a hospital in Guayaquil after struggling a breakdown as a result of he refused to eat, however after recovering his well being he was once more admitted to the utmost safety jail La Roca, the place leaders of felony gangs, drug traffickers and corrupt judges, amongst others, are additionally held.