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Prosecutor’s office asks for the maximum penalty for Jorge Glas for illicit association, in Odebrecht case

Ecuadornews:   Carlos Baca, prosecutor requested this morning the maximum penalty for the crime of illicit association, for the vice president without functions Jorge Glas, as the perpetrator of the crime. Baca made the request to present the final arguments in the trial...
Posted On 08 Dec 2017
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Prosecutor Carlos Baca: ‘Glas helped Odebrecht with his political power’

Ecuadornews:   The prosecutor Carlos Baca made a detailed explanation about the participation of Jorge Glas. He used a block of slides to explain that the Vice President had ‘full control’ of the strategic sectors, that he favored Odebrecht through the...
Posted On 08 Dec 2017
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New president of Maritime Chamber will continue pressing for dredging access channel to the port of Guayaquil

Ecuadornews:   Javier Moreira Calderón was elected as the new president of the Maritime Chamber of Ecuador (Camae) this Thursday, December 7, 2017. Moreira is linked to the shipping business as manager of CMA CGM in Ecuador. And he headed the only list authorized for the...
Posted On 08 Dec 2017
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ODEBRECHT Case: According to the Office of the Prosecutor, three parties confirmed their participation in the crime of unlawful association during a trial hearing

Ecuadornews:   After 12h00 this Wednesday, December 6, the 12th day of the hearing for the alleged crime of illicit association ended, in the ODEBRECHT case, where the Vice President of the Republic, Jorge Glas, and 8 other defendants are being investigated. According to the...
Posted On 07 Dec 2017
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President Lenin Moreno: I propose 7 times Yes to citizen demands

Ecuadornews:   The Head of State received the support of the municipal authority for his proposal for consultation to be held in February 2018. National authorities and the capital celebrated the 483 years of founding of the capital. Brief and concise was the speech of the...
Posted On 07 Dec 2017
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SRI requires to report overseas accounts of more than 100 thousand dollars

Ecuadornews:   A new obligation for companies and individuals to report monetary accounts abroad of $ 100,000 or more, under penalty of receiving a “burdensome” fine already established in the new Law of Economic Reactivation, alert entrepreneurs and analysts....
Posted On 07 Dec 2017
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César Montúfar: ‘What happened with the Procurator’s Office left the State undefended’

Ecuadornews:   Interview to César Montúfar, private accuser in the case against Jorge Glas. Glas’s trial is in the final phase. How do you evaluate the development of these 12 days of judicial proceedings? I see this with concern. It has been a hard and difficult...
Posted On 07 Dec 2017
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Mining and bad urban planning are the two risks of Zaruma

Ecuadornews:   The satellite images analyzed by technicians of the Secretariat of Risk Management reveal sinkings in the cantons Piñas, Portovelo and Zaruma, in the upper area of El Oro. The analysis is part of the intervention in the area, under the responsibility of the...
Posted On 07 Dec 2017
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‘It is necessary to clean up all the State from correístas’

Ecuadornews:   David Rosero, former member of the Council of Citizen Participation and Political Control (Cpccs), said that “the head of the sheep came by wool and came out shorn,” in reference to the visit made last week by former President Rafael Correa, and...
Posted On 07 Dec 2017
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For delay in appearing, court excludes the Procurator’s Office from Odebrecht case

Ecuadornews:   The criminal court that judges the alleged crime of conspiracy in the Odebrecht case declared the abandonment of the accusation filed by the Procurator’s Office because its judicial representatives were delayed seven minutes to reinstate the hearing...
Posted On 06 Dec 2017
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