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Judge César Cortez Medranda, of the Esmeraldas Criminal Judicial Unit, ordered the transfer of Gabriel Cortez, a Barcelona Sporting Club (BSC) player, to prison No. 4 in Quito, during the investigations carried out for his alleged connection with the criminal organization Los Tiguerones. This measure will also apply to 3 others involved.
This judicial provision was already known by the athlete’s mother, who was concerned when she heard that her son was supposed to remain detained in Guayaquil.
The relatives of soccer player Gabriel Cortez were concerned about the alleged transfer to one of the Guayaquil prisons as they fear for their safety.
“My son is not a criminal and everyone knows that he is a professional soccer player and does not deserve to be sent to a maximum security prison,” the woman said.
17 of the 18 detainees were transferred to prisons in Guayaquil, Quito and Cotopaxi for links with the Los Tiguerones criminal gang
She said that a brother of the soccer player and another relative were murdered on January 25, 2021, apparently for revenge. The double crime would have been committed by assassins in the sector known as Parada Siete, in the Puerto Limón neighborhood, the sector where the Barcelona Sporting Club player grew up.
Antonio Durán, defense attorney for Cortez, questioned the formulation of charges against him and did not rule out requesting the review of measures, habeas corpus or appeal from preventive detention. On the morning of this Saturday, April 23, he presented a new request for the soccer player to be transferred to Quito, for his safety.
The arrest of the midfielder was at a home in an urbanization on the road to the coast in Guayaquil, early on Friday the 22nd. He arrived in Esmeraldas in a police helicopter for investigative purposes, since an arrest warrant issued by a police officer was in force. Judge of the Penal Unit.
The player’s sister mentioned that her husband was killed during a massacre inside the Litoral Penitentiary, in Guayaquil, in November of last year, and that is why she asked the Ministry of the Interior that the athlete not be taken to that place.
They order preventive detention for 17 of the 18 detainees in the Poseidon operation, including the player Gabriel Cortez and three policemen
Relatives and friends of the soccer player held a sit-in outside the Community Surveillance Unit (UVC), so that the judge who ruled on preventive detention accepts the request for relocation to another penitentiary.
In this police unit, the judicial hearing was held last night for 18 detainees, including three police officers on active duty. Later, 17 of them were transferred to prisons in Quito, Latacunga and Guayaquil. (I)
Source: Eluniverso
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