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The government presented data on economic growth in the third quarter of the year and claims to have “good news.” The interannual data, however, shows a decrease of 1.6%. This is the fifth consecutive negative indicator. Since the third quarter of last year, the...

  Embezzlement, illicit enrichment, money laundering, bribery, influence peddling, organized crime and perjury. These are the crimes investigated by the Attorney General’s Office on the corruption network within Petroecuador. In total, there are 18 judicial proceedings...

The National Police arrived yesterday night to the house seized to the former manager of Petroecuador, Alex Bravo, in the city of Esmeraldas, to verify the complaint of a supposed party organized in the property. Upon arrival, they found with people inside the house, some of them...

2016 was a difficult year for the Government. Cases of corruption spilled over officials and former officials and led to investigations, arrests, trials, and sentences. The scandals deepened in April and May with the dissemination of the Panama Papers, the leakage of documents...

Both the Integral Criminal Code and the Communication Law establish the prohibition to disseminate information issued by the Office of the Prosecutor in the framework of a previous investigation. This includes the names of the people who are part of those inquiries and the...

A week after the US Department of Justice revealed the supposed payment of bribes by the Brazilian firm Odebrecht in Ecuador, which would surpass $ 33 million, the Attorney General´s office is in the translation stage of the documents with requests for international criminal...

The Public Prosecutor´s office admitted yesterday it has still not sent requests for criminal assistance to Brazil and the United States for the alleged payment of bribes by the construction company Odebrecht to government officials. Attorney General Galo Chiriboga explained that...

From January 3, 2017, the Media Monitoring Center of the Citizen Participation Corporation will be reactivated. It will allow the observation of the advertising broadcast during the election campaign, which also starts on Tuesday 3 and will last 45 days, until February 16. 10...

The Inter-American Press Association (IAPA) said on December 28 that 2016 was a year of challenges for journalists, who have had to work hard to protect the press freedom and face the digital transformation. “We have had an extraordinary and turbulent year in which our...

There were complaints, investigations and even reports with indications of criminal responsibility. Contracts in strategic sectors pass more than one filter, but in the reports of corruption within Petroecuador and in the works awarded to the Brazilian company Odebrecht, these...