A total of 807 cases of public servants from all sectors who have been convicted of various criminal offenses and domestic violence have still not been separated from public service as required by law.

The figure and the fact were revealed on April 12 of this year before the Commission on Justice of the National Assembly when the President of the Judicial Council Wilman Terán and Silvia Aguirre, National Director of Procedural Management of the Judicial Council Ricardo Vanegas appeared at the request of the legislatorwhich started from the fact that throughout the country there are 1,797 civil servants who have been convicted of various criminal offences, traffic and domestic violence, but continue to work at their workplace.

This data was obtained from the first search conducted by the Department of Statistics of the Judicial Council, which was submitted to the Ministry of Labor and the Chief State Inspector, in order to carry out a purge of personnel in the public sector and prevent these convicted persons from mocking the legal system.

Silvia Aguirre, National Director of Proceedings of the Judicial Councilconfirmed that it is true that the Statistics Department of the Judicial Council issued a report stating that there were 1,797 cases in which criminal verdicts were issued.

But that after conducting filtering and information filtering, it can be determined that there are 163 cases with a catalog of crimes provided for in Article 10 of the Organic Law on Public Service (Losep) and 644 cases on issues of domestic violence. So, there are 807 cases, and to update the documentation, they will be transferred to the territory, in order to avoid mistakes.

Lawmaker Ricardo Vanegas, member of the Justice board and member of the Pachakutik block, He explained that his office had received information that there are officials in the provinces of El Oro and Santa Elena who, despite being convicted, are working in the public service.

Vanegas asked the authority of the Judicial Council to first check whether the judges in the judgment they pronounced ordered the execution of the state supervisor, because the secretaries and officials do what the judge orders, and if they did not do it, then the responsibility would be on the judges.

The next step in the investigation, according to the Pachakutik legislator, is to determine who these officials are who have been criminally convicted and who continue to hold public offices, and above all to determine what functions they hold. The first collected data, he added, indicate that it is the officials of the National Assembly who carried out the punishments.

He explained that the law governing the public sector is clear and indicates that the moment an official is convicted of, for example, domestic violence, he is automatically excluded from the public sector or convicted of a criminal offense against the state administration. and he will never be able to do that again.hold the position

notification request

Minister of Labour, Patricio Donoso, He pointed out that as of October 19, 2022, several actions have been agreed to monitor and refine the record of convictions and prevention of work in the public sector.

For this purpose, she sent the Judicial Council a list of employees in the public sector, so that it could check the data with the servers who have been convicted and thereby update the record of being prevented from holding public office.

Donoso requested the authority of the Judicial Council to order provincial courts and judges to notify the Ministry of Labor at the time of a conviction to update the registry.

President of the court Wilman Teránexpressed that he shares the concern of the Commission for the permanency of convicted persons in public service, but that according to Article 181 of the Constitution of the Republic, the Council is not competent for the rectorate of human talents and therefore cannot be held responsible for this issue that is being investigated.

However, it is known that she ordered the judicial authorities in a circular to inform the competent authorities about the convictions that were carried out against people working in the public sector, so that the documentation could be cleaned and updated and submitted to the Ministry. of Labor and the Chief State Comptroller.

Organic Law on Public Service in Article 10, which talks about special prohibitions of holding a position, position, function or dignity in the public sector, it is stated that “persons against whom a final conviction has been pronounced for criminal acts of embezzlement, accepting bribes, extortion or illegal enrichment; and, in general, those convicted of defrauding state institutions are prohibited from holding, under any modality, any office, position, function, or public dignity. Those who have been legally convicted of the following criminal offenses will have the same disability: customs offences, traffic in narcotic drugs and psychotropic substances, money laundering, sexual harassment, sexual exploitation, human trafficking, illegal trade or rape. This prohibition applies to those persons who, directly or indirectly, received related loans contrary to the applicable legal system”.