The former president of the Judicial Council, Wilman Terán, with provisional prison for the Metastasis Casefirst, and later by another one called Judicial Independencehas been transferred to the maximum security prison of The rockin the prison complex of the Penitenciaría del Litoral, on the outskirts of Guayaquil, on the morning of this Saturday, March 30.
Terán, who was held in Prison 4, in Quito, has been transferred on an FAE plane to Guayaquil.
He was captured in Quito at dawn on December 14within the framework of Operation Metastasis, based on the content of the chats of drug trafficker Leandro Norero (killed in Latacunga in September 2022).
The Attorney General Diana Salazar formulated against him “organized crime” chargesfor allegedly having served drug trafficking interests in exchange for payments.
He is also accused of the crime of obstruction of justice after in May 2022, with only two votes, Terán and the member of the Judiciary Xavier Muñozthe judge of the National Court of Justice was suspended Walter Macias and later they dismissed him under the same formula: with the affirmative votes of Terán and Muñoz and the abstention of the member Maribel Barreno.
Terán intended to leave prison on March 18 to continue the process in freedom. But the Court, led by Judge Felipe Córdova, unanimously denied the appeal.
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