The businessman Gonzalo A. will give his testimony in advance in the case for illicit association in which Sebastián Yunda and seven other people are being prosecuted.
On Tuesday, December 21, from 10:00 the anticipated testimony of the organizer will be received of events and musical entrepreneur Gonzalo A., within the criminal process for the crime of illicit association in which Sebastián Yunda, son of the dismissed mayor of Quito Jorge Yunda, and seven other people are being investigated.
The businessman Gonzalo A. gave in his version of November 26 the last data of the Viva Quito 2019 fair that he held and in which the musical band 4AM, led by Sebastián Yunda, sought to intervene, and he also denounced that he had received telephone 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.”
Prosecutor’s Office requests that the anticipated testimony of a businessman who denounced threats in the Sebastián Yunda case be authorized
The anticipated testimony was requested from the judge of the Máximo Ortega case by the prosecutor Mónica Tirado and will give thirteen days to conclude the tax instruction on an alleged structure that he had access to privileged information to benefit from money from contracts related to the Municipality of Quito.
The summons to the hearing in which the anticipated testimony of the employer will be heard was made by the Pichincha criminal judge Ana Lucía Cevallos, who temporarily replaces Ortega. It is known that the testimony of Gonzalo A., who would be part of the Victims and Witnesses Program of the Prosecutor’s Office, will be taken using the Gessel camera in the Northern Judicial Unit, in Quito.
Gonzalo A. in November explained that in 2019 he, his partner Esteban T. and Pamela Novoa, prosecuted in this case and a trusted collaborator of the businessman, organized the Viva Quito fair, which had its own investments and investments and support from private companies.
Sebastián Yunda and 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 EMSeguridad; 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 Ruiz, Jorge Celedón, Alberto Barros, (…) and they were looking for national artists that “enhance the fair”.
“During this organization, a local group called 4AM contacted us by telephone, 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 ask us to meet with their representatives and musicians to look at the option of performing with the most prestigious international band at our fair, “said the businessman with more than 30 years of experience in events.
Sebastián Yunda is requested in extradition by the judge in the case of illicit association; the procedure remains in the hands of the president of the National Court
In his account Gonzalo A. recalled that they agreed to meet with the representative of the group 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, the lady calls me Isabel Yunda, introduces herself 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.
The 4AM representatives offered to invest and help them get private support for the event, said Gonzalo A. “The investment proposal initially consisted of a contribution to 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 ”.
According to the version, 4AM’s technical requirements and needs were channeled by its representative, Isabel Yunda, who is Sebastián’s mother. At the end of the version, Gonzalo A. said that it is with everything he could contribute in the case and due to the threats received he preferred not answering questions from either the Prosecutor’s Office or the attorneys present.
Édgar Molina, lawyer not only for Sebastián but also for his mother, Isabel Yunda, reduces the credibility of the alleged threats made against the event organizer and clarifies that the Viva Quito 2019 fair It was a private act in which the Municipality of Quito had nothing to do with it. “How was the threat carried out and what did they threaten him for” are the questions that Molina maintains regarding Gonzalo A.’s version (I)
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