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The former Vice President of Ecuador Jorge Glas was arrested this Friday, after the justice revoked a privilege in his favor and ordered his return to the prison where he was serving a sentence for receiving millionaire bribes > from the Brazilian construction company Odebrecht.
The police detained the former vice president who did not resist. to the arrest at his home in Guayaquil, according to videos posted on social networks.
“I return to prison with great pain for my family but as part of my personal struggle and a political project. A Costa Rican who is living history,” said the man who had governed alongside former President Rafael Correa since 2013 and was re-elected jointly with Lenín Moreno (2017-2021).
Earlier, a court in the province of Santa Elena (southwest) had decided to “declare the nullity of everything that had been done” by the judge who granted the Glas granted the habeas corpus appeal on April 10, according to the ruling published on the website of the Council of the Judiciary.
The Court also ordered the “immediate location of ;n, capture and transfer” The former vice president, 52, was sent to the prison in the Andean province of Cotopaxi (center), where he was serving a six-year prison sentence for receiving bribes from Odebrecht.
The police reported that will transfer He flew Glas to Quito by air, without giving further details.
“Glas does not run away and I think I have already proved it. The excess of infamy has been imposed once again,” he said. the former official in a video released on social networks shortly before his arrest.
Glas was also sentenced to eight years in prison for asking bribes from businessmen in exchange for contracts with the State in the case called “Bribes 2012-2016”, in which he also Former socialist president Rafael Correa (2007-2017) was sentenced in absentia.
Both sentences were ultimately ratified.
In another case, the former vice president was sentenced in 2021 to eight years in prison for embezzlement in the concession of an oil field. That sentence has not yet been executed due to the existence of appeals.
On Twitter, Correa denounced the “Unprecedented media and political pressure on the Santa Elena court.”
After receiving habeas corpus, Glas had moved to the city of Guayaquil (southwest) where his family lives. There he showed up periodically before a judge, as a substitute measure to jail.
The former vice president turned himself in. in October 2017 to the justice that investigated him for the millionaire bribes given by Odebrecht to win contracts in Ecuador.
He lost his claim. the position in January 2018, when Congress declared the definitive absence of him in the post after being sentenced. So, he became in the highest-ranking official in Latin America to be sentenced for the bribery scheme of the Brazilian construction company.