Police agents captured former Ecuadorian Vice President Jorge Glas on Friday outside his home, in an exclusive neighborhood of the port city of Guayaquil, complying with the order of the Provincial Court of Santa Elena, which revoked the arrest. The decision to release him was made by a judge in a small coastal town 40 days ago, even though he had two prison sentences pending for corruption.
A uniformed man arrived up to the door of the house of Glas, who without putting up resistance, listened. The reading of the rights and the resolution of the Court, after which he proceeded to arrest him with the order to take him to the jail in the Andean city of Latacunga, 90 kilometers south of the capital. He underwent medical tests to check the detainee’s health.
“I am going back to jail and I will be back. to go out, a hug to all my family, to my friends & rdquo ;, he affirmed Glas after being caught.
Unanimously, that Court revoked the the order of a judge of first instance who, applying an appeal, decided He released Glas on April 10, arguing that he was making the sentenced person’s right to life prevail over compliance with the verdict and sentence. Glas’s defense argued that his defendant was ill and that his life was in danger in prison due to the frequent massacres among prisoners in prisons.
That court also ordered The immediate investigation of all the officials, both from the prison system and the judicial system, who intervened in the release of Glas, in order to establish alleged infractions and responsibilities.
Glas did not wear an electronic shackle nor was he under house arrest, which allowed him to move around the country. One of his lawyers, Arturo Escala, affirmed & gué; while waiting outside the Modelo police station in Guayaquil, “I was told that the former vice president is going to come to turn himself in to the police and we are waiting to give him our support.”
Previously, no information had been provided on the completion of pending sentences.
A sympathizer of Glas’s party, Unión por la Esperanza, filed a habeas corpus petition, focused on protecting the rights of the prisoners, in this case of Glas, with which she was left behind. free. A Dutch drug trafficker was also released and a leader of the mafias that rule the prisons was about to be freed. Violent massacres among prisoners have been recorded in Ecuadorian prisons in the last two years.
The former vice president was sentenced to six years in prison for illicit association. He was quoted in a corruption scheme involving the Brazilian company Odebrecht and received an eight-year sentence for bribery in a case called “Bribes”, a complex network through which businessmen gave the government of former President Rafael Correa (2007-2017) millionaire sums in exchange for the concession of public works.
Meanwhile, it is The sentence of a third case for corruption is pending.
Glas was vice president of Correa between 2013 and 2017 and later of his friend and successor Lenín Moreno, who shortly after coming to power converted in a staunch detractor of Correismo.