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Fernando Alvarado, Patricio Pacheco, Pablo Yánez and Carlos Bravo have been called to trial in case SECOM

Ecuadornews: The judge of the National Court of Justice, Sylvia Sánchez, called the former communication secretary, Fernando Alvarado, for trial for the alleged crime of embezzlement in SECOM. He also did it with Patricio Pacheco, Pablo Yánez and Carlos Bravo. The penalty for...
Posted On 04 Apr 2019
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Papers of Panama, still with several cases open in Ecuador

Ecuadornews: Three years after the world publication of the Panama Papers, the Ecuador chapter discovered cases that, although they were investigated and brought to justice, also established new connections; for example, in the bribes of the Petroecuador and Odebrecht cases. With...
Posted On 04 Apr 2019
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Correa is called to trial for kidnapping

Ecuadornews: JudgeDaniella Camacho, of the National Court of Justice, made her decision after 40days of analyzing the case. Yesterday, she called for the trial of formerPresident Rafael Correa for the kidnapping of Fernando Balda. The decision includes Pablo Romero, former...
Posted On 08 Nov 2018
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Law against violence is stopped and mistreatment continues

Ecuadornews: Sitting in her living room, Paola says she has not yet replaced the door to her room. It is broken product of the blows she received from the man with whom he lived for eight years. That night, that door was the one that had the least impact. She got the worst part...
Posted On 02 Oct 2018
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Justice defines responsible in cases Balda and Froilán Jiménez

Ecuadornews: Two cases that the Office of the Prosecutor activated this year point to former President Rafael Correa: kidnapping of Fernando Balda and crime of Froilán Jiménez during the revolt of 30-S. Both judicial processes passed from the reserved investigation and are now in...
Posted On 27 Sep 2018
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Accidents leave 1,433 dead in eight months

Ecuadornews: The death toll from road accidents in the last eight months of this 2018 is among the highest in the same period of the last five years. In total: 1,433 lives lost from January to August of this year without accounting for the 12,890 injured (1,719 alone in August)....
Posted On 20 Sep 2018
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Flower growers ask for local sales without VAT

Ecuadornews: The Association of Producers and Exporters of Flowers of Ecuador (Expoflores), formed by more than 184 members, asked for the elimination of the value added tax (VAT) in the purchase of local flower. The chairman of the board, Juan José Albuja, made the request to...
Posted On 20 Sep 2018
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The fund of conflicts

Ecuadornews: Forty months after the process of transferring to Biess began, of the administration of unemployment and retirement funds, the Teacher Unemployment Fund is the only one that faces various problems and there is still discontent due to its management in part of the...
Posted On 10 Sep 2018
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Writ of habeas corpus requested by the detainee in Ecuador by case Facebook was not admitted for processing

Ecuadornews: The writ of habeas corpus presented by the American Paúl Ceglia, who several years ago demanded half of the property of Facebook, was not accepted by the Ecuadorian justice system. This was said on Thursday, August 30, 2018 an official of the House of Justice, in the...
Posted On 31 Aug 2018
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Jaramijó plant will improve electric service quality

Ecuadornews: The project had an investment of $ 4’323.280 and has a power transformer with a capacity of 20/25 MVA. It supplies 59,000 inhabitants of the area. María Plaza is convinced that the electric power service will improve. It considers that the work of the Jaramijó...
Posted On 31 Aug 2018
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