Two Russian citizens, one of them wanted by Interpol, are prosecuted in Quito for money laundering of about $ 1.2 million

Given the existence of facts that would reveal the crime of money laundering, the Pichincha Prosecutor’s Office formulates charges against two citizens of Russian nationality who would be part from a criminal organization that laundered resources for approximately $ 1.2 million.

The suspects, one of whom would keep Interpol (International Police) red broadcast for the crime of fraud, they were arrested on October 27 in operations executed in Quito and Manta by prosecutors from the Anti-Money Laundering Unit number 2.

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The theory to formulate charges that the Prosecutor’s Office handled, during the hearing held last Thursday, indicates that the now defendants, who would have had the collaboration of other Russian citizens, would be part of a “Criminal organization” that, between 2010 and 2017, would have received money from illegal activities through their bank accounts, remittances and parcel service.

At a hearing, the Prosecutor’s Office presented the elements of conviction collected in several months of investigations, before which a judge from the Pichincha Criminal Judicial Unit with Competence In flagrant offenses, he opened a 90-day tax instruction and issued preventive detention against the two foreigners, as well as the prohibition of alienating their assets.

It is also investigated that the discovered organization would have received money through a legal entity, which would have been used to erase the money trail. (I)