On the afternoon of April 29, it was learned that the judge of the National Court of Justice, Julio César Inga Yanza, rejected this request and declared it inadmissible. In his ruling he states that his request comes from an erroneous premise and considers it inappropriate.
The court ruling denies the former vice president’s defense request to revoke the court’s authorization to extract information from Glas‘s electronic devices .
The devices (a tablet and two cell phones) were confiscated on April 5, in the police raid on the Mexican Embassy in Quito. That night Glas, who has a sentence for bribery, was also captured.
On April 16, Glas had requested, through his lawyers, to revoke the authorization of the judge of the National Court, Julio Inga, which allowed the information to be released.
Inga authorized “the exhibition, recognition, preservation, extraction, analysis, materialization and transcription of the information contained in the devices in the chain of custody” within the investigation of the Manabí Reconstruction case .
Jorge Glas ‘s lawyer had said that the chain of custody was “irremediably compromised” because it is not known how many people it passed through before reaching the Flagrancy Unit.
Likewise, it was indicated that the person who signed the police report was not at the Mexican Embassy in Quito . And that, since the detention of the former vice president is “illegal and arbitrary”, the “evidence obtained is also illegal.” However, Judge Inga ‘s ruling declares the request vanished and inopportune.
Teleamazonas reports that now the investigative experts of the Prosecutor’s Office have the green light again to proceed with the extraction of the information. This a few hours before Ecuador ‘s appearance at the International Court of Justice in The Hague begins, due to the lawsuit filed by Mexico for the raid on its Embassy in Quito.
https://www.larepublica.ec/blog/2024/04/30/la-informacion-de-los-dispositivos-de-glas-se-extraera/
