Crime by the Ecuador prosecutor’s office: they are investigating a former minister of Rafael Correa who said that the murder occurred because the wife of the drug trafficker “Fito” was under investigation

The Ecuadorian Prosecutor’s Office announced on Wednesday that it will launch an investigation against José Serrano, former Minister of the Interior during the government of Rafael Correa, for the alleged dissemination of information considered confidential on the murder of public prosecutor César Suárez, shot down by assassins in the city of Guayaquil.

The Public Prosecutor’s Office, in a message, describes Suárez’s crime.

Serrano posted it on his X account Suárez allegedly asked for information on the tax files of José Adolfo Macías Villamar ‘Fito”s wife, the leader of the “Los Choneros” criminal gang who escaped from the regional prison of Guayaquil.

“A great prosecutor murdered, the great majority of honest and professional prosecutors at risk and some rogue infiltrator who needs to be exposed who he is,” Serrano wrote in the tweet.

The former official served in the Correa government between 2011 and 2016, until he left office to take up a seat in the National Assembly (Legislative Bridge).

Because of that message, the Public Prosecutor initiated the complaint by inviting citizens “not to spread speculation that could benefit criminals or people wanted by the law”.

After learning of the announcement of the opening of the investigation by the Prosecutor’s Office, Serrano insisted that “an investigation is urgently needed to determine who leaked the information requested by Prosecutor Suárez to the criminals who ordered him to be killed.”

“I will always be ready to collaborate with whatever Justice requires of me. “I have not lied to the country nor will I lie now,” he said.

This Thursday the Ecuadorian police arrested two people allegedly linked to Suárez’s murder, according to police sources. “We have arrested 2 suspects involved in the murder of prosecutor César Suárez, in Guayaquil, after an investigative procedure that allowed us to identify their alleged participation in the criminal act,” wrote the general commander of the police, César Zapata, in a X’s post

According to the official, a rifle, two pistols, troughs and two vehicles were seized from the detainees.

Prosecutor César Suárez was murdered this Wednesday afternoon by hitmen who shot him inside his vehicle, while he was on his way to a hearing for a drug trafficking case and did not have a security team assigned.

Suárez had recently interrogated the thirteen detainees who took an armed assault on the TC Televisión channel on January 9 and held its workers hostage for several hours during a live broadcast.

The murder of the prosecutor occurred in the middle of state of emergency due to “internal armed conflict” declared by the Government against 22 organized crime gangs, mainly dedicated to drug trafficking, and which the Executive has classified as terrorist groups and belligerent non-state actors to be neutralized by the police.

This after the wave of violence experienced on January 9th and attributed to organized crime, where In addition to the seizure of the canal, police kidnappings, murders, explosive devices and vehicle burning were recorded. and prison riots with around 200 hostages already released.

The State Attorney General, Diana Salazar, deplored Suárez’s crime and said that the Public Prosecutor will not stop its fight against organized crime groups.

“This atrocious event brings with it a message for the work we are carrying out through justice in Ecuador,” but “organized crime groups, criminals, terrorists will not stop our commitment to Ecuadorian society,” he said Salazar.

The Prosecutor said that the Prosecutor’s Office has undertaken the first investigations into Suárez’s murder and after expressing condolences to his family, assured that his legacy will accompany the Prosecutor’s fight against crime.

On the other hand, the entrepreneur Daniel Salcedo, one of the more than thirty people involved in Ecuador in the “Metastasis” corruption case for his apparent links with the alleged drug trafficker and money launderer Leandro Norero, He arrived in Quito this morning from Panamawhere he was extradited in one of the numerous cases that prosecutor Suárez was investigating.

Salcedo arrived in the Ecuadorian capital with the former governor (former government delegate) of the coastal province of Guayas Álvaro Ponce, who was with the businessman at the time of his arrest and who is also wanted by the Ecuadorian justice for alleged embezzlement (appropriation undue) … in another case of corruption.