The State Attorney General’s Office (FGE), has raided the offices of the international insurer Mapfrein Guayaquil, within the framework of an investigation reserved for alleged illicit association related to the alleged irregular contracting of policies by the state oil company EP Petroecuador .
The raid lasted a short time and the Prosecutor’s Office has not reported on the seized items.
Mapfre has responded in a statement that it has made public, that the ongoing investigation It is not related to cases, “such as the one mentioned by the Prosecutor’s Office regarding EP Petroecuador, which is a company that does not have any type of relationship with Mapfre”.
They add that “Mapfre is absolutely certain that it has not committed either the alleged crime under investigation or any other”.
For the same case, in October 2023, offices of Petroecuador, in Quito, and the insurance company La Unión, in Guayaquil.
After that raid, in February, the Prosecutor’s Office filed charges against five people for alleged embezzlement, four of them officials of EP Petroecuadorfor actions that “would have caused damage to the State of approximately 49 million dollars.”
This investigation began after a confidential complaint filed in the Prosecutor’s Officefor alleged irregularities in the process of contracting an ‘Insurance policy for technical branches that includes the following policies: all oil risk and maritime and non-maritime civil liability for the Public Hydrocarbons Company of Ecuador EP Petroecuador’, signed with a insurance company for more than 98 million dollars, as reported by the newspaper Expreso.
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