Last October, judge Geovanny Freire dismissed former president Abdalá Bucaram, his son Jacobo and two other people accused of organized crime.
In the Provincial Court of Justice of Pichincha, with the presence of former President Abdalá Bucaram Ortiz, the hearing to appeal to the dismissal received in last October the ex-president, his son Jacobo Bucaram Pulley, businessman Bryan Pérez and Verónica A., within the criminal process for the crime of organized crime.
The appeal was filed by the prosecutor Lidia Sarabia, after last October 4 the criminal judge of Pichincha Geovanny Freire dismissed the four indicating in his sentence orally that they are private buyers of rapid tests for COVID-19, which were legally imported into the country.
Abdalá and Jacobo Bucaram face appeal hearing in case of organized crime; businessman seeks confirmation of his dismissal
In this case, the Prosecutor’s Office took seven people to the evaluation and preparatory hearing, but Freire issued an appeal for trial against only three: the Israeli Sheinman Oren, the agent of the Metropolitan Transit Agency (ATM) Leandro B. and Isabel P., who is currently a fugitive.
Prosecutor Sarabia presented more than 40 elements of conviction at the trial preparatory hearing to support his accusatory opinion against the seven against whom he asked to be called to trial, but at the request Freire only called three.
The crime of organized crime investigated by the Prosecutor’s Office was related to alleged irregularities in the pandemic commercialization of 21,000 rapid tests to diagnose COVID-19.
The hearing takes place in a room of the Pichincha Court and is directed by the provincial judges Patricio Vaca (speaker), Miguel Narváez and Anacélida Burbano.
Judge issued dismissal in favor of Abdalá Bucaram and his son Jacobo in case of rapid evidence
Regarding Abdalá and Jacobo Bucaram, Judge Freire indicated in his oral decision that criminality cannot be established on the storage of said evidence in relation to the ex-president; and about Bucaram Jr. pointed out that he acquired these tests without eventually being handed all of them. The judge added that these tests were not negotiated in public hospitals.
In this case, the former agents of the AMT Cléver A. and Samuel S. were also prosecuted, but because they submitted to an abbreviated procedure and accepted the facts in which they were related, on April 15 last Judge María Elena Lara, who was in charge of part of the process, He decided to accept this special procedure and sentenced each one to five years in prison. (I)
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