The file goes from the Guayas Prosecutor’s Office to the Central Plant because prosecutors who are handling the case are with COVID-19 and by family request, the entity explained.
She was found dead in Manta, Manabí, but the case initially went to Guayas so that prosecutors specializing in gender-based violence carry out the investigation, it was said at the beginning. But now, the process goes to Quito, to the Central Plant. This request had already been made by the family of the deceased. And now it is specified with the announcement of the Prosecutor’s Office.
The Attorney General of the State, Diana Salazar, thus arranged, on the morning of this January 14, the transfer of the investigation of the death of the model Naomi Arcentales that was carried out by the Guayas Prosecutor’s Office. Now the process will be substantiated by a prosecutor specializing in gender violence in the Ecuadorian capital.
In a statement from the Prosecutor’s Office it is indicated that Salazar accepted the request of Naomi’s family and that the decision is also due to the fact that the prosecutors who knew the case in Guayas are positive for COVID-19 and present a delicate health picture. that prevents them from continuing with the proceedings in the territory.
The case was first with the prosecutor Livanesa Gálvez and then with Patricia Morán. And both are with COVID-19. For this reason, the case file will be transferred from the Persons and Guarantees Prosecutor No. the young model
Arcentales was found dead in Manta, Manabí, on December 12, 2021, in the apartment where she lived with her then-partner, prosecutor Juan Carlos Izquierdo.
The official was suspended from his post after messages, a video, and complaints about mistreatment and violence that the young woman would have received from him became known and went viral. The man’s defense rejected that and then Izquierdo himself publicly stated that he did not kill the model and that he was the victim of an alleged media lynching.
Juan Carlos Izquierdo says that he did not kill Naomi Arcentales and that he suffers media lynching
Izquierdo is suspended while the death of the young model who was 23 years old is investigated. Relatives, friends and defenders of women’s rights speak of femicide in this case.
Before the transfer of the investigation into his death to Quito is known, on the afternoon of Thursday, January 13, in Manta, Manabí, the hearing was held to formulate charges against two implicated in the rape complaint filed by the model. A hearing that was deferred three times and that was finally held on January 13.
At the hearing for the rape complaint, the Prosecutor’s Office opened criminal proceedings for two involved. They belong to Javier C. and Sixto M. It was known that they were resident businessmen from Quevedo, Los Ríos, but that they had been in Manta, Manabí, when the event occurred.
Doubts about the investigation of the death of Naomi Arcentales make the victim’s mother and lawyer ask the Prosecutor’s Office to transfer the case to Quito
She did not know them previously, but identified them as the aggressors in her anticipated testimony, according to the Prosecutor’s Office, which only prosecuted these two involved. For both, the judge who heard the case ordered the prohibition of leaving the country and the periodic presentation before the authority.
The violation would have been recorded on August 20, 2021 in a condominium building adjacent to the property where she was found dead on December 12 last. (I)
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