Widow of Gabela talks about bribe in purchase of Dhruvs helicopters

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The occasional commission of the Assembly, which analyzes the death of General Jorge Gabela, will request that the Comptroller and the Money Laundering Unit investigate the assets of those who participated in the purchase of the Dhruv helicopters.

According to César Litardo, president of the commission, this will be one of the main recommendations of the report of the legislative table, which will be ready on October 15, where the information of more than 20,000 pages and 40 appearances will be processed.

He explained that at the legislative table they presume that the crime was due to complaints about the purchase of aircraft. Therefore, they will ask that the members of the Technical Commission of the FAE be investigated, as well as the Honorable Military meeting and the Interinstitutional Committee. Patricia Ochoa, widow of General Gabela, said that these studies will reveal “who got illicitly enriched”.

She is convinced that there were bribes in the process, “on the part of arms sellers to some people,” Ochoa said. Last Wednesday, Paola Carrera, former secretary of the Interinstitutional Committee, did not attend the Assembly, despite the fact that it was the third call. “It was insisted on publicly, in the judicial box in the Office of the Prosecutor.

If he did not attend, he must render accounts to the country, to justice. Who owes nothing, nothing fears, “said Litardo, who pointed out that Carrera is vital in the investigations. For Assemblyman César Rohón, in the case there was “concealment at all levels.”

 The Office of the Prosecutor will carry out the reconstruction of the third report in the coming days, according to Litardo. They do not rule out the appearance of the prosecutor Raúl Pérez to the Assembly, once the expert Roberto Meza delivered to the Prosecutor’s Office the names of those responsible for the death of Gabela. At the legislative table, the expert Horacio Martín also denounced pressures in the preparation of the final report. He spoke of corrections.

At Litardo’s discretion, several appearances left doubts. He recalled that the commission has copies of emails, in which officials of the Ministry of Justice ask the expert Meza to delete and delete sheets of the report, “there were clear attempts to hide the information in the case.” (I)

Source: https://www.eltelegrafo.com.ec/noticias/judicial/12/casogabela-coima-compra-helicopteros-dhruvs