The General Contralory of the State would rule in about two months on the mayor of Quito, Santiago Guarderas, who was also denounced in the Pichincha Prosecutor’s Office.
In accordance with Alexander Rhodesconstitutionalist and university professor, Nursery breaks the law of the popular consultation of February 2017, which established that any person who intends to represent through elections must meet the requirement of have no shares, be a partner in countries that for Ecuador are tax havens.
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Rodas assured that Guarderas is a member of the law firm Quevedo & Ponce and a company dedicated to real estate issues in Panama, which was created in the 1990s by that group of lawyers.
In the 2017 general elections, a popular consultation was approved to prohibit any candidate for an election from being a beneficiary of any entity in tax havens.
According to him Internal Revenue Service (SRI), The Republic of Panama is included in a list of countries considered as tax havens.
Dated from January 30, 2022added that Guarderas continues to be a member of the Coppa company in Ecuador. This was mentioned on his Twitter account.
On February 2, 2022, according to Rodas, in the Comptroller’s Office he denounced an alleged legal disregard of the mayor, because it is the entity that must carry out a special examination in a maximum of 60 days and in the Pichincha Prosecutor’s Office, last Wednesday, it denounced a possible crime of perjury.
denied being a lawyer from a construction company. He did not rule out being a candidate in the next elections, since he indicated that he has support and has had conversations with political organizations.
He pointed out that the day after filing his complaint, they broke the window of his car and they only took a briefcase of papers whose content belongs to three councilors and the mayor.
“I believe and I am convinced in social control (…) and even having a mayor with accounts and shares in tax havens that never He shouldn’t even have been a Quito councilor because it was the express prohibition,” he said.
Rhodes posted on his Twitter account, an official letter from the Comptroller, dated February 10, 2022, in which it is made known that the National Directorate of Audit of Decentralized Autonomous Governments has been ordered to issue a work order for the execution of a special exam in order to determine the existence of the infraction and the responsibility of Santiago Guarderasfor having taken office as mayor of Quito, presumably having assets or capital, of any nature, in jurisdictions or regimes considered as tax havens.
The same document states that according to Rodas, citing the Superintendency of Companies, nurseries is a shareholder in the company Coppa & Pi Real Estate SA, as well as in the foreign company Quevedo & Ponce Incorporated established In Panama but in his affidavits of assets he has stated that does not have assets or capital in tax havens.
The Mayor Santiago Guarderas He has not yet ruled on Rhodes’ claims. (I)
Source: Eluniverso
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