Andres Villegasone of the lawyers of Jorge Glasentered a letter to the National Court of Justice to request the revocation of the authorization to obtain information from two cell phones and a Ipad of Glas.
The document indicates that the chain of custody is “irremediably compromised” because it is not known how many people it passed through before reaching the Flagrancy Unit. It is also alleged that since the detention of the former vice president was ‘arbitrary and illegal’, the evidence obtained is also illegal.
On April 12, the judge Julio Inga authorized “the display, recognition, preservation, extraction, analysis, materialization and transcription of the information contained in the devices in the chain of custody” within the framework of the Manabí Reconstruction case.
In his ruling, the magistrate indicates that this procedure must be carried out respecting articles 475 and 477 of the Comprehensive Organic Criminal Code (COIP), that is, in order to proceed with the opening and examination of the correspondence, the interested party will be notified in advance, and with his or her attendance or not, the correspondence or document will be read in a confidential manner, communicating the individual to the victim and the defendant. or your public or private defender.
Likewise, with the intervention of two experts who are sworn to remain confidential, with the prosecutor in a private hearing, the recording will be shown and the content of the computer records will be examined. The parties may attend with the same oath.
On April 5, the Police raided the Mexican Embassy to capture Glas and as part of the operation they confiscated two iPhones and an iPad.
According to EcuavisaOn April 12, a National Court granted him habeas corpus, but did not order his release from prison. The rockin Guayaquilbecause he still has to serve accumulated sentences for final sentences for corruption.
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