The Foreign Ministry has reported that the former vice president Jorge Glaswho since December has been a “guest” taking refuge in the Mexican Embassy, to evade a prison order against him issued by a judge of the National Court, remains in that place, after a wave of rumors on social networks social workers claimed that he had fled and was trying to leave the country, by land, through the northern border.
At mid-morning, the public force was on alert for a possible escape attempt by Jorge Glas. It was reported that senior officials of the Armed forces and the National Police They had ordered their troops to fortify the checkpoints at the border crossings.
Glaswho was released at the end of 2022 after serving five years in prison for two convictions for bribery and illicit association of eight and six years in prison, respectively, is now being prosecuted for alleged embezzlement in the Manabí Reconstruction case.
In mid-December 2023, Glaswho describes himself as a victim of lawfarearrived at the Mexico’s embassy in Quitowhen there was still no arrest warrant against him.
At the beginning of January, a judge ordered his entry into provisional prison.
The investigation by the Prosecutor’s Office determined that there would be an abuse of public money for the benefit of third parties, natural and legal, who were contractors and inspectors of the contracts signed for the reconstruction of Manabí, after the 2016 earthquake.
Glaswho held the position of vice president during part of the term of Correa and the first months of the mandate of Lenin Morenohas said that he wants to reverse his legal situation, regarding the first trial for which he was convicted, after the Supreme Federal Court of Brazil void the tests of the computer system Odebrecht.
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