It is about Foglocons opened in 2012 in the country through the Colombian Álvaro Pulido and Luis Sánchez Yánez, brother of Rafael Correa’s bodyguard.
A company of the presumed front man of Nicolás Maduro, Alex Saab, detained in the United States, owes the Internal Revenue System (SRI) of Ecuador some 558,000 dollars, a person in charge of that tax entity reported on Monday.
This was indicated by the SRI official Andrés Ordóñez in an appearance before the Political Control and Supervision Commission of the National Assembly (Parliament), on behalf of the Director of Internal Revenue of Ecuador, Marisol Andrade.
In his presentation, Ordóñez reported on the tax situation of the Foglocons company, owned by Saab, which established a branch in Ecuador, whose activity was allegedly fictitious exports and imports to launder money from Venezuela.
As revealed, the Saab company exported $ 296 million to Venezuela between 2012 and 2013, without paying “not a dollar” of taxes in Ecuador and confirmed that the SRI has not started any collection process on the tax debt since 2014.
In the testimony, he mentioned national businessmen identified as “suppliers of materials” for Foglocons. They are Víctor Silva, Jaime and Luis Sánchez, Nassib Neme and Miguel Ángel Loor, the latter, president of the Pro League of Ecuadorian football.
The official denounced that Loor benefited with about $ 36 million of the funds of the Saab company in 2016, and that he currently owes the treasury about $ 7 million, he refers EFE.
Ordóñez explained that the Saab funds, released in 2016 by court orders, they were transferred to tax havens in Switzerland, Curaçao, Korea, Venezuela, Barbados, Panama, Libya and Spain.
The Control Commission of the National Assembly, chaired by Fernando Villavicencio, received Ecuadorian officials who provided information in the case of the transactions that Saab would have carried out from Ecuador.
It was Villavicencio who recently requested that an investigation be opened into the activity of Foglocons in the country.
The company was established in 2011, and had as partners Saab himself and Álvaro Pulido, also from Colombia, who were related to the commercialization of prefabricated houses worth $ 465 million, which were never built in Venezuelan territory.
In 2012, a company with the same name was opened in Ecuador through Pulido and Luis Sánchez Yánez, brother of the bodyguard of former President Rafael Correa, who, according to Villavicencio, was involved “in the biggest money laundering scandal in recent years. , through the Unitary System of Regional Compensation and Payments (Sucre) ”, adopted in 2009 and based on a virtual currency hosted by the ALBA countries.
Villavicencio concluded that “The Sucre system did not contribute dollars to the Ecuadorian State, but allowed a mechanism for laundering” currency.
The Superintendent of Banks, Ruth Arregui, who took advantage of the “banking secrecy” to not reveal information on clients of the financial system, will continue other hearings that have had to be rescheduled throughout the week. .
On Wednesday, former prosecutor Galo Chiriboga was called to appear, while next Friday the State Attorney General, Diana Salazar, is expected to do so. (I)
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