Correa, Glas, Alvarado lose last judicial instance of the Bribery case in Court

Rafael Correa and Jorge Glas are authors of instigation to commit the crime of bribery in the Bribery case. This was stated on the afternoon of this Monday, September 7, 2020 by the Court of Cassation of the National Court of Justice of Ecuador, in the last judicial instance.

Damned! Correa, Glas, Alvarado … lose last judicial instance of the Bribery case in Court

The Court declared the appeal of Correa and Glas inadmissible ; I point out that the culprits instigated “Pamela Martínez to set up the distribution of bribes and the illicit system in an office parallel to the Presidency of the Republic.” While former Secretaries of State Alexis Mera, Vinicio Alvarado, María de los Ángeles Duarte and Walter Solís, as well as Viviana Bonilla, Cristian Viteri and Pamela Martínez, are co – perpetrators of the crime of aggravated bribery, according to the magistrates.

According to the Court, “Jorge Glas instigated from strategic sectors and later as Vice President of the Republic and leader of his political movement, so that through Pamela Martínez he obtains economic resources for his own benefit and his political movement.”

Pamela Martínez was a presidential advisor at the Carondelet Palace during Correa’s presidential regime. Initially, she was detained and later collaborated with the investigations of the case, for which the Prosecutor’s Office determined which companies made contributions to the Alianza País political movement in exchange for obtaining contracts from the State.

Based on the granting of the benefits of effective cooperation, the Court of Cassation imposed the penalty of 9 months and 22 days for Pamela Martínez.

The court made up of joint judges Javier de la Cadena, Milton Ávila and José Layedra heard the cassation appeals filed by Correa and 15 other defendants who were sentenced for bribery in two instances in the Court.

Based on Article 657 paragraphs 5 and 6 of the COIP, the Court declared inadmissible the resources of cassation de Alvarado, Bonilla, Street, Cordova Correa, Do You Choin, Fontana, Galarza, Glas, Hidalgo, Martinez, Mera, Philip Coper , Salas, Sánchez, Solis, Betancourt, Verduga and Viteri as they were not justified with the technical sufficiency required by this extraordinary medium.

La casación es el último recurso judicial; en esta instancia Correa busca que se revise el cumplimiento de la normativa y del Derecho en el proceso de juzgamiento.

El Tribunal de Casación se reunió presencialmente en la Corte Nacional de Justicia a las 15:00

Durante la audiencia de casación, que se inició el jueves 3, los abogados de los condenados cuestionaron la aplicación de 11 artículos de dos normas penales. Ellos dijeron que se aplicó e interpretó incorrectamente la ley.

For their part, the State Attorney General’s Office and the Attorney General’s Office rejected those arguments and asked that the sentence be ratified for all those convicted.

Due to the health emergency of covid-19 , the hearing to know the oral sentence was held in two different rooms of the High Court and the lawyers and sentenced persons were also able to appear electronically.

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