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The dawn of December 26, the Attorney General´s office along with the Police, raided eight homes, three in Guayaquil and five in Samborondon. Eight prosecutors and 80 police officers took part in the operation, with the raid warrants granted by the Judges of the Flagrante Delicto...

Giant paper puppets from the Guayaquil´s suburb, in the coastal province of Guayas, already have their own touristic route. The puppets that are traditionally sold to be exhibited and burnt as a symbolic farewell to the old year, and in some cases surpass the eight meters of...

The best conditions for access to products from the European Union (EU), which will govern once the multiparty trade agreement enters into force, generate interest in local manufacturers. With the publication, on Saturday, December 24, of the accord in the Official Gazette of the...

Attorney General Galo Chiriboga reported on Monday night that Ernesto Weisson Pazmino, arrested during his house raid the midnight of December 25, is under house arrest due to being a senior citizen (over 65 years old). Weisson is being investigated by the corruption network...

The Council for Citizen Participation reported that “it ordered the Secretariat of Transparency and Fight against Corruption (internal area of the Council) to initiate the necessary actions to support the Odebrecht Prosecutor’s investigation, denounced in the...

On Christmas days, The Attorney General´s Office raided homes and detained a person. It only announced the alleged money laundering offense, unrelated to the corruption plot in the state company Petroecuador. It was Interior Minister Diego Fuentes the one who “tied those...

President Rafael Correa, in a statement, expressed his position on the international scandal unleashed by the investigation of the US justice system into the contracts of the Brazilian construction company Odebrecht. According to documents from that process, officials from at...

The speed with which other countries in the region, involved in the bribe scandal confessed by the Brazilian businessman Marcelo Odebrecht, shows the pace of the Attorney General of Ecuador, which at the moment has not disclosed public information. In Peru, the Attorney´s Office...