Sebastián Yunda, son of former mayor Jorge Yunda, and seven other people are investigated by the Prosecutor’s Office for the crime of illicit association.
In the middle of an extradition process so that Sebastián Yunda, son of the dismissed mayor of Quito Jorge Yunda, be brought to Ecuador and after the anticipated testimony of the musical entrepreneur Gonzalo A. is how he closed the tax investigation against eight people accused of the crime of illicit association.
On January 3, the prosecutor Mónica Tirado notified the closure of the 120 days provided for this stage and requested to the criminal judge of Pichincha Máximo Ortega who defines the day and time so that an evaluation hearing and preparatory trial be held in which the respective accusatory opinion will be issued against the defendants.
Sebastián Yunda’s defense, Édgar Molina, maintains that the 120 days of investigation are closed without the Prosecutor’s Office having strong elements to support the accusation made against his client. In this case, the existence of a structure that supposedly had access to to privileged information to benefit from money from contracts related to the Municipality of Quito.
As part of the process against Sebastián Yunda in hearing, the anticipated testimony of businessman Gonzalo A.
Regarding the request for the extradition of Yunda made by the National Court of Justice (CNJ), Molina said he did not know details of the process that takes place in Buenos Aires, Argentina, because a group of lawyers from that country is in charge of preventing it from happening.
On December 22, the president of the CNJ Iván Saquicela decided that the request for the extradition of Sebastián Yunda and formally requested Argentina to grant the extradition of the Ecuadorian, who was arrested in Buenos Aires on December 1 last.
Saquicela in the document that he sent to the Argentine justice authorities highlighted that last October 11, the Pichincha criminal judge Máximo Ortega ordered that Yunda, an Ecuadorian musician leader of the band 4AM, is arrested for allegedly being responsible for “organizing with other people to commit crimes.”
On December 7, Judge Máximo Ortega asked the National Court to carry out the necessary procedure so that Yunda is transferred to Ecuador. With the formal order made For Saquicela, the Argentine authorities were asked to hand over Sebastián Yunda, “so that he may be present at the trial that is being followed against him” in Ecuador.
In addition to Sebastián Yunda, in this case César Yunda, Sebastián’s uncle who maintains a blue Interpol broadcast, is being investigated; Christian Hernández, former advisor to Jorge Yunda; the former chief of staff of the then Mayor Yunda, Cinthya Puga; Adrián Haro, former manager of the company public EMS security; event organizer Pamela Novoa; businesswoman Nancy Gaibor and her husband, the former director of the Ecuadorian-China Chamber of Commerce Yinlong Wang.
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 the anticipated testimony of Gonzalo A. he spoke of the Viva Quito 2019 fair that he held and in which he invested the musical band 4AM. In the version of November 26, the businessman He pointed out that the group invested $ 20,000 through a deposit to Pamela Novoa, but in his testimony last December he added that he received three amounts in cash: $ 10,000, $ 30,000 and $ 40,000.
The total investment made by the 4AM band would have been $ 100,000 and for which the businessman signed receipts to Isabel Yunda, Sebastián’s mother. What Gonzalo A. did not speak of in his testimony was the alleged threats made to him by telephone before he rendered his initial version and in which they assured her that “in the case of mentioning the name of Isabel Yunda”, her life and the integrity of her family “would be in danger.”
Within this criminal process, Judge Ortega must respond to the request made by the manager of the Public Company EMSeguridad, Ernesto Buchelli. Before responding, Ortega pointed out that this party presents the original documentation that demonstrates the quality in which it appears in the case, as well as clarifies the criminal type for which it accuses. (I)
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