According to the Prosecutor’s Office, Bini had unauthorized access to the CNT system in order to try to obtain information from Petroecuador and Senain.
A judicial hearing that was to be held this Wednesday and Thursday in the Ecuadorian capital against the Swede Ola Bini, friend of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, was suspended due to the absence of an authority involved in the process, his defense warned on Tuesday.
“Once again a hearing in the process against Ola Bini is suspended. This time because the manager of CNT_EC (National Telecommunications Corporation) will travel to Cuenca ”on Thursday and the court accepted his request not to appear, he assured Efe Carlos Soria, lawyer for the Swedish computer scientist.
For the defense, “this is not a legal reason” to postpone a judicial hearing to which a representative of the Swedish Embassy based in Bogotá was even scheduled to attend, added Soria.
In addition, the court that is following the case “does not give us a date” for the resumption of the hearing, in a judicial process that takes more than two years, with constant suspensions that have meant “torture” for Bini, added the lawyer. .
The Swede’s defense will ask “immediately the court to assign us a date and time” for the hearing, Soria insisted after lamenting that today’s hearing has been postponed, for whose organization and confirmation the judicial authorities had more than a month.
It was not even essential for the CNT manager to attend the hearing, since, as has already happened, he could have appointed an attorney to represent him, the lawyer added.
Last September, October 20 and 21 were set as dates for the trial hearing against Bini, accused of the crime of non-consensual access to a computer system of the Ecuadorian State, which he denies.
In that month, Soria had warned that it would demonstrate the more than one hundred violations of due process in this case, which have even been denounced by organizations such as Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch.
Bini, 39, was arrested on April 11, 2019 when he was preparing to leave Quito for Japan, a few hours after the Government of Ecuador, then chaired by Lenín Moreno (2007-2021), ended asylum in his London embassy of Julian Assange.
According to the Prosecutor’s Office, Bini had unauthorized access to the system of the National Telecommunications Corporation in order to try to obtain information on the digital content of the platforms of the oil company Petroecuador and the former National Intelligence Secretariat (Senain).
This case should have been processed in 2019, but was postponed several times for different reasons, including those generated by the coronavirus pandemic. (I)
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