The National Court of Justice (CNJ) formally requested extradition from Argentina of Hernan Luque Lecaroformer director of EMCO and prosecuted for apparent organized crime in the Encounter case.
The entity sent a statement on February 27, indicating that the Court ratified the admissibility of the extradition request made by the judge in the case the day before, that is, on Monday the 26th.
Now “it corresponds to the Ecuadorian Foreign Ministry manage this request expeditiously,” they indicated.
On the morning of this February 27, the chancellor Gabriela Sommerfeld commented in an interview that the National Court of Justice He had not yet carried out the relevant diligence with the Foreign Ministry to proceed with the extradition.
«The National Court has to ask us to issue information about the extradition request of those people (Hernan Luque) towards the Argentine State. “The Argentine State is waiting for the extradition request that has not yet been requested from the Foreign Ministry,” he said. Summer field.
On Thursday, February 15, CNJ had asked Argentina that they have detained Luque Lecaro.
Encounter Case
Hernan Luque He is one of the eight prosecuted for organized crime, since November of the previous year, in the Encounter case. It investigates corruption in public companies during the previous government. It is also processed Danilo Carrera Druetwho is under house arrest and is the brother-in-law of the former president of the Republic, Guillermo Lasso.
Luke Was president EMCO between July 2021 and October 2022.
He left the country on his way to Argentina in January 2023 in the midst of the scandal over the leak of audios in which he is heard talking about amounts of money, opening accounts in Andorrasale of positions and delivery of contracts.
According to Ecuavisahas been a fugitive since November 24, 2023, when the Prosecutor’s Office prosecuted him for organized crime in the Encounter Case and a Judge ordered him preventive detention.
According to the Prosecutor’s Office, the network had collaborators in different public institutions, such as Banecuador, CNELhe National Customs Service y FLOPPER.
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