“I declare under oath lack directly or indirectly property or capital in countries or jurisdictions considered to be tax havens”.
This is stated in the affidavit of assets start of management Mayor of Quito, Santiago Guarderas, on the website of the Comptroller General of the State, this Monday, February 14, 2022. The information is publicly accessible. It is dated July 19, 2021.
According to the website of the Superintendence of Companies, also this Monday, Guarderas is a current shareholder in Coppa & Pi Inmobiliaria SA, which is active and is a shareholder in the foreign company Quevedo & Ponce Incorporated, of Panamanian nationality.
According to a list of the Internal Revenue Service (SRI), Panama is a tax haven.
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Guarderas has preferred to remain silent on complaints filed against youlast week, by Alejandro Rodas, lawyer and university professor, at the State Comptroller General’s Office and at the Pichincha Prosecutor’s Office.
For Rhodes, Guarderas breaches the law of the popular consultation of February 2017which established that any person who intends to represent through elections must meet the requirement of not having shares or being a partner in countries that for Ecuador are tax havens.
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; and in the Pichincha Prosecutor’s Office, last Wednesday the 9th, he denounced a possible crime of perjury.
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.
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This newspaper requested a version of Guarderas before the denunciations of Rodas. Without further details, the Municipality of Quito responded —this Monday— that the mayor is not going to pronounce.
An official letter from the Comptroller General of the State, posted by Rodas on his Twitter account, mentioned that a special examination will be carried out to determine the existence of the infraction and the responsibility of Santiago Guarderas. for having taken office Mayor of Quito presumably having assets or capital, of any nature, in jurisdictions or regimes considered as tax havens. (I)
Source: Eluniverso
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