The fiscal instruction in the criminal process for the crime of illicit association, in which Sebastián Yunda is investigated, concludes on January 3, 2022.
A few days after the conclusion of the prosecutorial investigation for the crime of illicit association in which Sebastián Yunda, son of the dismissed mayor of Quito Jorge Yunda, and seven other people is prosecuted, the prosecutor Mónica Tirado asks the criminal judge who is leading the case, Máximo Ortega, who authorizes the testimony anticipated by Gonzalo A., an event organizer and music entrepreneur who performed the Viva Quito 2019 fair in which the 4AM musical band, led by Yunda Jr., sought to invest.
The order was made by Tirado on December 8 last, 26 days after the 120 days are closed. ordered for the tax investigation stage. Before responding to the request, Judge Ortega asked the prosecutor to let him know the reason why Gonzalo A. could not appear at a trial hearing if this were the case.
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Ortega explained to the prosecutor in the case that the “judge may receive as advance evidence the testimonies of the seriously ill, of the physically handicapped, of those who are going to leave the country, of the victims or protected witnesses, informants, undercover agents and of all those who demonstrate that they cannot appear at the trial hearing ”.
From what is known at the moment, Gonzalo A. He would be part of the Victims and Witnesses Program of the Prosecutor’s Office. On November 26 last he rendered a version in which he indicated that in 2019 he, his partner Esteban T. and Pamela Novoa, prosecuted in this case and a trusted collaborator of Gonzalo A., organized the Viva Quito fair, which had their own investments and investments and support from private companies.
Judge Ortega has not yet given a formal response to the request for advance testimony made by the prosecutor of the Transparency Unit.
Sebastián Yunda, the event organizer Pamela Novoa are part of a list of defendants that is completed with César Yunda, Sebastián’s uncle; Christian Hernández, former advisor to Jorge Yunda; Cinthya Puga, former chief of staff for Mayor Yunda; Adrián Haro, former manager of the public company EMS security; businesswoman Nancy Gaibor and her husband, the former director of the Ecuadorian-China Chamber of Commerce, Yinlong Wang.
Gonzalo A. pointed out in his version that for their event they had international artists such as Maelo Ruíz, Jorge Celedón, Alberto Barros, … and they were looking for national artists to “enhance the fair”.
“In the course of this organization, a local group called 4AM contacted us by telephone, in which they played and It is part of Sebastián Yunda, asking us for your desire to participate in our fair international and promoting your group. Which is why we are interested in helping and promoting this 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 representative of the group in their offices north of Quito. There the wish would have arisen 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 the promotion and the presence in the entire international fair of the aforementioned 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 fair of $ 20,000 by the 4AM group (…) With the help from several companies and the 4AM investment 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 he gave his 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.”
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The technical requirements and needs of 4AM, mentioned in the version, were channeled by its representative, Isabel Yunda, who is Sebastián’s mother.
Assuring that it is with everything he can contribute in the case and warning of the threats received against him, Gonzalo A. said that he did not wish to answer questions.
Édgar Molina, a lawyer not only for Sebastián but also for his mother Isabel Yunda, reduces the credibility of the alleged threats made against the organizer of the musical event and clarifies that the fair Viva Quito 2019 was a private event in which the Municipality of Quito had nothing to do with it.
“How was the threat carried out and why was they threatened?” Are the questions Molina asks himself regarding Gonzalo A.’s version. According to the lawyer, Isabel Yunda’s version has already been requested.
Regarding Sebastián Yunda, the process continues for him to be extradited from Buenos Aires, Argentina, place where he was arrested last December 1 by Interpol agents (International Police), due to a red notice requested by the Ecuadorian justice. Yunda in Ecuador maintains a preventive detention order in the case for illicit association. (I)
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