Diana Salazar, State Attorney General, indicated on December 18, 2023 that drug trafficker Leonardo Norero would have paid $250,000 for the freedom of former Vice President Jorge Glas. This remuneration also benefited Daniel Salcedo.
Diana Salazar says that Glas benefited from drug trafficking
Posted On 20 Dec 2023
Norero would have paid $250,000 for Jorge Glas and Daniel Salcedo to be released from prison.
The Metastasis case, in which 31 people involved are being investigated for apparent organized crime, has affected several figures in Ecuadorian politics. Among them, Correismo’s number two, who has already been convicted for the Odebrecht and Bribery case 2012-2016.
Salazar commented in an interview with Teleamazonas that it cost Norero (alias ‘El Patrón‘) $250,000 to free the former vice president.
He added that Norero wanted to collect this ‘little favor’ when Glas is president.
“Because part of the strategy of organized crime is to have political control, control of the authorities. How do they control the authorities? Delivering favors and then collecting them,” Salazar commented.
This payment from alias ‘El Patrón‘ would also have favored Daniel Salcedo, who is a fugitive from justice and has been sentenced for the illicit sale of medical supplies during the Covid-19 pandemic.
Salazar continued saying that in another part of the chats, taken from Leonardo Norero ‘s phone , “they say that they need the former presidents to return because they are losing money.”
The Teleamazonas communicators asked: Who are you referring to when you say former presidents?
Salazar responded: “The former president referring to Mr. Jorge Glas‘s running mate. It said RC.”
Following the murder of Leandro Norero at the Cotopaxi Social Rehabilitation Center, the Prosecutor’s Office began an investigation that revealed the tentacles of drug trafficking in several State institutions.
On mobile devices, a criminal strategy to avoid justice was evident, with the support of a group structured for these purposes, among which are judges, prosecutors, officials from the Judicial Council and the SNAI. Lawyers in free practice and so on are also involved.
Norero’s cell phones revealed a criminal strategy to evade justice, with the support of a
“That is the level of putrefaction that we have been able to reveal in this plot of the Metastasis case,” said prosecutor Diana Salazar.
