Pandora Papers: President Lasso makes himself available to the Oversight Commission
The President Guillermo Lasso answers. After the head of the National Assembly Oversight Commission, Fernando Villavicencio, requested information from the Executive after the unveiling of the so-called Pandora Papers, the first president, through a letter addressed to Villavicencio, made himself available to the legislative table to answer all the questions about the case that mentions him along with other heads of state, former president and personalities from the world of art, world politics and more.
For this reason, the president extends an invitation to Villavicencio and through him to the rest of the Audit Commission to the Palacio de Carondelet “so that they can ask me the questions they deem pertinent in light of the aforementioned publication.” “Because it is my obligation as a public official to clarify to the Ecuadorian people any concern that may arise about the origin of my heritage.”
Lasso, according to the publication of the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists, dissolved entities in tax havens before registering his last presidential candidacy when there was already a legal prohibition to hold public and popularly elected positions for those who have assets or properties offshore, of according to what was approved in the popular consultation of 2017.