Prosecutor accuses the involved in Cofiec Case

Last Wednesday at the National Court of Justice, the Attorney General accused former director of the Banco Central del Ecuador (BCE) and representative of the Unidad de Gestión de Derecho Público (Ugedep), Pedro Delgado, and other eleven former officials of the Cofiec bank and Seguros Rocafuerte, as alleged perpetrators of bank embezzlement by an irregular supply of credit of $ 800,000 to Argentine businessman Gaston Duzac, who is also listed as accused.

Six other executives of these institutions were identified as accomplices in the crime for which the penalty amounts to four to eight years in prison.

The prosecutor Galo Chiriboga made ​​the accusations, on the second day of the preliminary hearing trial and formulation of opinion which was chaired by the judge of the Criminal Chamber of the National Court of Justice, Paul Iniguez.

The prosecution hopes the judge will abide to their request to call to trial these 19 people at the end of the debate between the parties, in addition to requesting remand and precautionary measures for Delgado, who resides in the United States- as well as for the six accused of concealing; and expanded the order to Pedro Z., former president of Seguros Rocafuerte, who did not face these measures until yesterday.

Galo Chiriboga at the National Court of Justice.