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On Wednesday, the Bureau of Justice, composed of the Judicial Council, the Attorney General and the Public Defender, conducted the first evaluation of the positive and negative aspects of the implementation of the Organic Integral Criminal Code since last August 10. In that event...

Following the legal battles with the U.S. oil company Chevron, Ecuador’s government announced last Monday that it will propose the creation of a multistate observatory of transnational companies. Ecuadorian Foreign Minister Ricardo Patino said the announcement will be made...

This Monday Pedro Delgado, former head of the Banco Central de Ecuador (BCE), and one of the involved in an irregular grant of a $ 800,000 credit made by the Cofiec Bank to Argentine businessman Gaston Duzac, requested his lawyers to no longer defend him on this case....

After three days and over 20 hours of work, last Thursday Judge Paul Iniguez, of the Criminal Division of the National Court of Justice (CNJ for its Spanish acronym), postponed the preliminary hearing in the case of judgment that follows the alleged offense of embezzlement over a...

The chance to apply for the first partial renewal of the National Electoral Council (CNE for its Spanish acronym) through merit competitive examination, ends this Friday. Those interested may apply at the offices of the Council of Citizen Participation and Social Control (CPCCS...

Last Wednesday at the National Court of Justice, the Attorney General accused former director of the Banco Central del Ecuador (BCE) and representative of the Unidad de Gestión de Derecho Público (Ugedep), Pedro Delgado, and other eleven former officials of the Cofiec bank and...

On Tuesday the Tenth Court of Criminal Warranties of Guayas, declared Jorge Glas Viejo guilty for having raped a minor, after having been indicted on September 28, 2011 (that day he was arrested and released). The minor became pregnant and had a child. From his hospital bed where...

Actions that may “threaten public safety” are typified in 29 articles of the Criminal Code, with penalties which amount up to 13 years in prison for the most serious offenses. The new regulation contrasts with the previous, which typified 13 behaviors such as sabotage...

This Monday from 09:00 in the National Court of Justice (CNJ for its Spanish acronym), the Attorney General of the State meets to issue a judgement on the preparatory hearing against 20 defendants for their alleged responsibility in the crime of embezzlement in the loan of $...

According to governor Lira Villalva, last Sunday with the help of authorities, over a hundred people from the villages of Bilbao and Pillate mobilized voluntarily due to the “high” activity of the Tungurahua volcano in the last hours. “We are concerned because...