Former Ecuadorian vice president Jorge Glas, arrested last Friday after a police raid on the Mexican embassy in Quito, The man is stable and will be transferred to prison in the next few hours.l after being hospitalized due to a heart attack that a police report attributes to a possible drug overdose and which the prison authorities attribute to his refusal to eat.
The National Global Attention Service for Adults Deprived of Liberty (SNAI), the state penitentiary agency, recalled in a statement on Tuesday that Glas he remained under medical observation in the last hours at the naval hospital in the city of Guayaquil.
Soldiers at the Naval Hospital, where Jorge Glas was admitted. Photo by AFPAccording to the assessments carried out, “he currently has stable health parameters within the normal range, therefore he can receive the corresponding medical discharge”, he notes in the letter.
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The SNAI added that “during this April 9th”, in strict compliance with security protocols, Glas will return to La Roca, the maximum security prison in Ecuador where he was detained after his arrest at the Ecuadorian embassy in Mexico.
In that prison – underlines the SNAI – there will be a vigil “for the protection of physical integrity” of Glas.
Andrés Villegas, Glas’ lawyer, believes that SNAI’s statement is concise and he complained about the lack of official information on the real situation of the health crisis in Glas that occurred on Monday.
This is because a police report – to which Glas’ defense had access – mentions alleged drug poisoningwhile SNAI refers to a decompensation due to lack of food intake.
Villegas told EFE that he hopes to receive official information on the situation of Glas, minister and vice president during Rafael Correa’s presidential term (2007-2017). with whom he has been friends since youth. He was also Lenín Moreno’s vice president (2017-2021) in the first months of his mandate.
Glas, who entered the Mexican embassy in Quito last December, asked for asylum from the Mexican state, which granted it to him last Friday, and a few hours later the president of Ecuador, Daniel Noboa, ordered the police to attack the diplomatic headquarters to arrest him, which caused Mexico to break off relations.
The assault on the embassy received international condemnation, while Ecuador justifies its action with the fight against corruption, as Glas is prosecuted for alleged embezzlement of funds in a case over the reconstruction of Manabí province after the earthquake of 2016. and still faces an eight-year sentence in two other cases, for which he has already spent nearly five years in prison between 2017 and 2022.
Source: Clarin
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