The State Attorney General’s Office (FGE) of Ecuador requested this Wednesday the Preventive detention of former president Lenín Morenohis wife and one of his daughters for failing to comply with periodic presentation before justice while the alleged case of corruption synohydro.
Local media indicated that the FGE also applied the notification to Interpol for the location and capture of the former presidentaccused of alleged corruption.
Seven other people received the same request for preventive detention among the 37 tried in the CD “Inapapers Case”.
The hearing to review the measures requested by the prosecutor’s office was scheduled for this Wednesday in the presence of the attorney general in charge, Wilson Toainga, and an imminent decision by the justice was assumed.
Moreno is accused of having benefited from the collection of bribes for the award of the contract to the Chinese company Sinohydro, in charge of the construction of the Coca Codo Sinclair hydroelectric project.
The former president’s family group is estimated to have benefited from $660,000, derived from an alleged act of corruption.
FGE says those involved would have benefited from four percent of the total value of the contract, about $76 million.
Attorney General Toainga asked Associate Judge Mauricio Espinosa for Moreno’s preventive detention because he had to appear periodically before a judicial authority and, instead, he is still in Paraguay.
Moreno’s lawyer and his wife explained that their clients reside in Asunción, where the former president works as Commissioner for Disability Affairs in that country, under the designation of the Secretary General of the OAS, Luis Almagro.
For Moreno’s defense, traveling every 15 days from Paraguay to Ecuador would have repercussions on the former president’s health.
For this reason, on March 22, the lawyer had requested that his clients be able to appear periodically at the consular office in Asunción, but the request was rejected.
Until this Wednesday, the public or tax investigation phase of the Sinohydro case was underway, according to the website of the El Comercio newspaper, which estimated 37 defendants, including Moreno, his wife, his daughter, two brothers and two sisters-in-law. law.
Source: Clarin
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