Prosecutor Diana Salazar assured that the situation of former Vice President Jorge Glas “has to be resolved in the Courts, not in the embassies.”
Former vice president Jorge Glas at a press conference in Guayaquil, on October 26, 2023.
The Attorney General of the State, Diana Salazar, explained that the location and immobilization order of the former vice president Jorge Glas, issued on December 16, is due to the investigations in the case Reconstruction of Manabí.
The document sent by the Prosecutor’s Office to the National Police does not detail the case for which Glas is being investigated, but this Monday, December 18, in an interview with Teleamazonas, Salazar confirmed that it is for the reconstruction of Manabí, after the 2016 earthquake, alleged crime of embezzlement.
The prosecutor detailed that 119 days ago she already asked Judge Luis Rivera to set the day and time for the hearing to formulate charges against of Glas for this case. “However, several attempts have been made to delay this procedure“, Salazar assured.
“The Prosecutor’s Office cannot stop its action, that is why we have requested that citizen Jorge Glas appear to carry out some procedures, but this “It has not been possible,” added the prosecutor.
But shortly after the disposition of the Prosecutor’s Office was known, it was learned that the former vice president took refuge in the Mexican Embassy.
The Reconstruction of Manabí case
On June 1, 2023, he announced the investigation against former vice president Jorge Glas; Carlos Bernal, former secretary of the Committee for Reconstruction; and Pablo Ortiz, former manager of the public company Ecuador Estratégico, for his alleged participation in the crime of embezzlement.
The first date for the hearing for formulation of charges was September 6, but Glas did not appear and claimed that his lawyer has a health problem, so the procedure was deferred.
In a third attempt, on November 29, the hearing to formulate charges in the Manabí Reconstruction case was postponed again.
That day, the judge of the National Court, Luis Rivera, resolved that the National Assembly rule within a reasonable period of time on the new Jorge Glas process.
