Xavier Jordán, one of the Prosecutor’s defendants in the Metastasis case, will be wanted in 194 countries and was classified as ‘dangerous’ in the Interpol alert.
Illustration by Xavier Jordán, and the Interpol logo.
This January 18, it was reported that the International Police (Interpol) accepted Ecuador’s request to locate and provisionally detain Xavier Jordán, one of the defendants in the Metastasis case, which is investigating the links of justice officials with organized crime.
At the beginning of this month, the State Prosecutor, Diana Salazar, linked to this corruption plot Daniel Salcedo, who was expelled from Panama and is now detained in prison 4 in Quito, and Xavier Jordán Mendoza, who presents himself as a businessman residing in the United States.
According to the Interpol alert, which dates from January 11, 2024, Jordán is classified as ‘dangerous’ and ‘prone to evasion’.
The Ecuadorian authorities accuse Jordán of the alleged crime of organized crime. On January 8, Judge Felipe Córdova accepted the Prosecutor’s request to request his location through Interpol.
“Citizen Xavier Jordán made companies available to people involved in the commission of crimes to justify the movement of the criminal economy, derived from illicit acts within the money laundering process in which citizen Leandro Norero had been prosecuted” , states the alert in reference to the case against Jordán.
Precisely, the chats revealed by the Prosecutor’s Office within the Metastasis case show that Xavier Jordán maintained contact with Leandro Norero, known as El Patrón, financier of narco-criminal groups such as Los Lobos.
The interactions between the two begin on May 30, 2022. Jordán complained to the drug trafficker that he was being attacked on social networks.
They even talked about planning an attack against journalists to silence the publications that appeared and seek to “resolve what happened to this Villa”, in relation to the then assemblyman Fernando Villavicencio.
According to the latest immigration record, Xavier Jordán left Ecuador on February 2, 2020 bound for Miami, Florida, on an American Airlines flight.
Based on the Interpol order, the preventive detention of the Ecuadorian is ordered and “guarantees are given that extradition will be requested when the person is detained, in accordance with the applicable national legislation and the relevant bilateral and multilateral treaties.”
