Taiano says that the PSC has no relationship with Muentes – 2024-03-13 03:36:03

The head of the legislative bloc of the Social Christian Party, Vicente Taianohas told the press that Neither the Social Christian Party nor the legislative bloc have any relationship with the acts perpetrated by the former Christian Social Assembly member Pablo Muentes.captured in the early hours of Monday, March 5, after his house was raided in an operation carried out by the Prosecutor’s Office.

“First, in the event that all these accusations are true, they are made in a personal capacity, and the bench or the party have no relationship with that and we have said it and I want to be emphatic on this issue”Taiano said.

“In any case, I believe that this issue has to be dealt with by justice and no one can be above the law.”he added. “The relevant instances of the party will have to act and in fact they have to do so (after the judge announces whether he is linking it to the process)”.

The Prosecutor’s Office has accused Muentes of enriching himself by manipulating seven judges of the Guayaquil Court of Justice. Among the charges presented by Attorney General Diana Salazar is having obtained, through habeas data, that Banco del Pacífico is ordered to compensate him with four million dollars after paying debts with that bank with false documents.

Muentes is also accused of getting his cousin, Fausto Alarcón Gómez, to gain ownership of a property in Durán, valued at $200,000, without any evidence that he has paid for it.

Christian Social since 2012

Between 2012 and 2020, Pablo Muentes was Executive Coordinator of the Municipality of Guayaquil, that is, since the mayor’s third administration Jaime Nebot and the middle of the only Cynthia Viteri. In 2021 he was placed on the list of candidates for assembly by the Social Christian Party, as a substitute for Soledad Diab by Bohrerand became principal when she resigned.

As a Social-Christian assemblyman, he was a member of the Oversight Commission, where he harshly confronted the president of that commission. Fernando Villavicencio. In 2023, Villavicencio formally reported to the Prosecutor’s Office that Muentes planned to murder him by hiring hitmen..

After losing re-election as a legislator in 2023, Muentes has been close to the new president of the National Assembly, Henry Kronfleto the point of being part of his delegation to visit the president Daniel Noboa at the Carondelet Palace.