Prosecutor’s Office on the trail of the route of the money moved within the Sebastián Yunda case; businessman talks about threats

Less than 45 days are left for the prosecutorial investigation that was initiated by an illicit association in which Sebastián Yunda, son of former mayor Jorge Yunda, and seven more people are prosecuted, who are accused by Prosecutor’s Office of being part of a structure that had access to privileged information and it benefited from money from contracts that would be related to the Municipality of Quito.

The case began last September 3 with the filing of charges against Christian Hernández, former adviser of Jorge Yunda; Cinthya Puga, former chief of staff for Mayor Yunda; Adrian Haro, former manager of the public company EMSeguridad; the event organizer Pamela Novoa, the businesswoman Nancy Gaibor and her husband, the former director of the Ecuadorian-China Chamber of Commerce Yinlong Wang.

Cell phones of Jorge Yunda and Sebastián Yunda will be appraised within the process for illicit association

Thirteen days after the prosecution began, Sebastián Yunda and his uncle César Yunda were linked to the investigation. Preventive detention orders weigh on both suspects and also at Interpol (International Police), at the request of Judge Máximo Ortega, there is a red broadcast for Sebastián and a blue broadcast for César. The tax instruction must last 120 days.

One of the edges that the Prosecutor’s Office investigates based on information found on Sebastián Yunda’s cell phone is the origin, motive and destination of two deposits of $ 8,000 and $ 20,000 made to the processed Pamela Novoa in October 2019 by Carmen Gaibor , sister and sister-in-law of the also defendants Nancy Gaibor and Yinlog Wang. Captures of the transfers they were part of the messages between Yunda and Wang, to whom he called “Dad” or “Dalong”.

Versions on transfers

Carmen Gaibor in her version before the Prosecutor’s Office, last October 26, acknowledged having made the transfers to Novoa to an account at Banco Internacional for a fair in the city of Quito and he said, without giving further details, that they were carried out at the request of his sister and brother-in-law.

Novoa, in its version of September 10, explained to the Prosecutor’s Office that in 2019 it reopened its Unique Registry of Taxpayers as an event organizer, administration and control to carry out the International Fair Viva Quito 2019, lwhich took place in the Bicentennial Park between November 29 and December 5, 2019 and in which, he clarified, national and international artists participated.

According to the defendant, she was an assistant to one of the two organizers of the fair, Gonzalo A., and carried documents to the two businessmen, which include Esteban T. She assured that she opened the account at Banco Internacional for that fair and recalled that for that event she loaned $ 50,000 to Gonzalo A., who was her mother’s partner.

Of Sebastián Yunda mentioned Novoa who does not know him and who only saw him “from afar” when he introduced himself on one of the days of the 2019 fair with his 4AM group. He also did not say he knew the person who made the two deposits totaling $ 20,000, Carmen Gaibor, but he did report that the amounts received were for the sale of stands, sponsors, brand presence and sponsors.

At the request of Novoa’s defense, the Prosecutor’s Office called Esteban T. and Gonzalo A., organizers of the Viva Quito 2019 fair, to render a version, which -according to them- was a “failure”.

Esteban T. gave his version last October 26 and began by saying that he did not know the subject for which he was there, but even so he was willing to collaborate with what he can. Among other things the organizer of the fair said who invested $ 80,000 in it; that a specific account for the money had not been created of the fair, since transfers were made from the accounts of each partner; and that Pamela Novoa did not participate in the 2019 fair.

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When asked if he knew the national artists who participated in the Viva Quito 2019 fair or if he knew if Sebastián Yunda participated in the event, Esteban T. pointed out that he did not know any artists nationals, since he only managed “international grill” and he said that he can clarify that he did not know about Sebastián Yunda, because in all the publicity of his events that name never came out.

Regarding whether or not there were other private investors at the fair, Esteban T. bluntly replied that only he and Gonzalo A. they were the only investors. He also highlighted that the event did not receive or sponsorship nor investment of the Municipality of Quito, since it was a completely private action.

Businessman talks about threats before release

The calls for versioning requested on this issue reached Gonzalo A., who on November 26 last started his version stating that in 2019 he, his partner Esteban T. and Novoa, his trusted collaborator, organized the Viva Quito fair and that it had their own investments and investments and support from private companies

Gonzalo A. explained that for their event they had international artists such as Maelo Ruiz, Jorge Celedón, Alberto Barros, among others, and that they were looking for national artists to “enhance the fair.”

“During this organization, we are contacted by telephone by a local group called 4AM, in which Sebastián Yunda plays and is a part, asking us for his desire to participate in our international fair and to promote his group. Reason why our interest in helping and promoting said group. After this phone call, they asked us to meet with their representatives and musicians to look at the option of performing with the most prestigious international band at our fair ”, says the version of the businessman with more than 30 years of experience.

Continuing with the story, Gonzalo A. recalled that they agreed to meet with the group’s representative at their offices in the north of Quito. There they would have raised the desire to promote and “invest” in the fair, in order to “appear, promote and present themselves to the 4AM group.

“I meet at the 4AM group offices to listen to your proposal specifically, Mrs. Isabel Yunda calls me, introduces himself as a representative of the group, asking us for promotion and presence in all the international fair of the mentioned group. (…) After analyzing with my partner Esteban T. we decided to accept the investment proposal by the 4AM group at our fair ”, he said.

According to Gonzalo A., the 4AM representatives offered to invest and help them get private support for the event. “The investment proposal initially consisted of a contribution for advertising and development of our $ 20,000 fair by the 4AM group (…) With the help of several companies and the investment of 4AM, we started with my partner Esteban T. and my collaborator Pamela Novoa to launch the international fair ”.

The free and voluntary version given by Gonzalo A. ended up making a revelation and denunciation: in the days before give your version, he had received phone calls in which they told him “That in the case of mentioning the name of Isabel Yunda” in his version, his life and the integrity of his family “would be in danger.”

The requirements and technical needs of 4AM, mentioned in the version, were channeled by its representative, Isabel Yunda.

Assuring that it is with everything he can contribute in the case and warning of the threats received against him, Gonzalo A. He said he did not wish to answer questions. These days it is expected to expand its version at the Prosecutor’s Office Esteban T. and until now Sebastián Yunda, whose last destination he was in was Bolivia, has not given his version in this case. (I)