The president of the Oversight Commission of the National Assembly, Fernando Villavicencio, will ask the State Attorney General’s Office to investigate the economic growth of Johana Núñez, current prefect and candidate for re-election in Santo Domingo de los Tsáchilas, for the Citizen Revolution.
The legislator revealed that the Anti-Corruption Parliamentary Front complied with the investigation to identify the alleged links between criminal structures with local government candidates and other political leaders. At the moment, they have presented two reports to the State Attorney General’s Office with a total of 24 names of candidates and related people, and until Friday they will present four more names that will include the prefect of Santo Domingo, Johana Núñez.
The Prosecutor’s Office will be asked that the candidate for re-election as prefect of Santo Domingo de los Tsáchilas, Johana Núñez, investigate their bank accounts, the economic growth of recent years and also the links with the lawyer of former Vice President Jorge Glas, Edison Loaiza Granda, because he is also the sponsoring lawyer of the candidate and a nephew of his is the adviser of the candidate for re-election.
faces and identities
Villavicencio clarified that the parliamentary group has not hidden the faces nor the identities of the linked candidates, and that what the Prosecutor’s Office presented is not a profiling of memes or a monitoring of social networks; rather, an investigative report based on information from the Judiciary, the Prosecutor’s Office, intelligence agencies and the National Police.
This prior investigation is open in the Prosecutor’s Office, and that the dangers indicated are oriented to candidacies from border provinces such as Sucumbíos, Esmeraldas and Manabí. He recalled that there is information processed by the Prosecutor’s Office about the candidate, Adis Solís, for mayor of San Lorenzo for the Revolución Ciudadana movement and that “she maintains links with drug-criminal structures, whose candidacy is key because that canton is one of the hottest areas border with Colombia, as it is a transit site for cocaine”.
Anti-Corruption Parliamentary Front delivered new contributions to the investigation into drug politics, presented three cases in Esmeraldas and Azuay
There is also information on the links of the drug trafficker Enrique Portocarrero with various candidacies in the province of Esmeraldas and their commercial relations created in that province. At least five candidates from the provinces of Esmeraldas and Manabí would be related to this criminal structure, he noted.
Another of the information delivered to more than the Prosecutor’s Office to the American embassy is the relationship of the candidate for the first councilor of the Río Verde canton for the Citizen Revolution, Bagner Castillo Cortez, with drug trafficking, and said that after the complaint filed, the criminal group unleashed persecution of various citizens, accusing them of delivering information to the Oversight Commission.
By the time the Prosecutor’s Office finishes its work, it must initiate criminal proceedings against the now candidates who will have become authorities. There are enough elements presented for the Prosecutor’s Office to advance in the work; “Don’t think they’re going to be saved, the country can choose them, but then justice has to put its hand on them,” Villavicencio said.
Impeachment of the CNE
Once the electoral process concludes and the results of the 2023 sectional elections are known, the members of the National Electoral Council (CNE) and the Electoral Dispute Tribunal (TCE) will be subjected to a political trial for breach of control functions. electoral process of 2023, announced Fernando Villavicencio.
Legislator Sofía Sánchez (PK) and member of the Anti-Corruption Parliamentary Front He questioned that the current CNE, which has been in office for more than five years, has not requested changes to the legislation in order to control the leakage of drug trafficking and organized crime in political organizations and candidates for sectional elections. The members of the Electoral Council are accomplices and responsible for the lack of electoral control in the country, she noted.
Request for information
The Commission for Sovereignty, Integration and Comprehensive Security summoned the Minister of the Interior, Juan Zapata, to report in detail on 28 candidates who allegedly have links to drug trafficking, illegal mining and other crimes; but the official excused himself, which led to the rejection of legislator Patricia Núñez (UNES), who presided over the legislative table.
They also expected to know details about the investigations carried out by the Ministry of the Interior to reach the conclusion that the people investigated belong to different political parties in eleven provinces: Guayas, Pichincha, Manabí, Orellana, Esmeraldas, Santo Domingo de los Tsáchilas, Los Ríos , El Oro, Bolívar, Azuay and Sucumbíos.
Núñez asked the absent minister, what is he afraid of or perhaps this alleged complaint is another government show that desperately seeks to justify a crafty referendum. That it is necessary for the official to come and present the report to the country, taking into account that it is a few days away from an election where the new representatives of the local authorities will be defined.
The official assemblyman, Jorge Pinto, questioned that the president in charge of the Sovereignty and Integral Security commission, Patricia Núñez, has changed the date for Minister Zapata’s appearance, which was initially scheduled for February 8, perhaps for electoral purposes, he claimed. She added that the law allows a public official to excuse himself due to agenda issues. (YO)
Source: Eluniverso
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