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Cesar Verduga shall comply house arrest
Posted On 21 Mar 2014
Cesar Verduga shall comply house arrest
Former Government Minister Cesar Verduga (1997-1998), will have to comply house arrest, because of his age, and the ban on leaving the country, as precautionary measures, once the Judge of the National Court of Justice, Ximena Veintimilla, lift the order of preventive detention.
Verduga is processing since 1998. The Prosecution accused him of the alleged crimes of embezzlement and illicit enrichment during his management in the interim Government of Fabián Alarcón Rivera, for a superior amount of USD 6 million at that date. In April of that year, Héctor Romero, then President of the Supreme Court of Justice, issued the custody, two days after Verduga abandoned the country.
The ex-Minister traveled to United States and then went to Mexico. There, he was detained for two months and was then released. Mexico granted him the nationality. Despite attempts to the Ecuadorian Government, the request for extradition was never executed. Now, Verduga is known as an academic internationalist. The Defense asked he could be allowed to return for trisl, because the process was stopped from the time he was fugitive.
