The Attorney General’s Office Ecuador defended the sentence obtained from the case odebrecht by the Ecuadorian Justice, after in Brazil the Federal Supreme Court annulled the evidence used against Jorge Glas, former vice president of Ecuador during the presidential term of Rafael Correa.
In a statement, the Public Ministry stated that there is a “intention to discredit the sentence obtained in the Odebrecht case, as well as unsuccessful attempts with other cases already sentenced.”
The Prosecutor’s Office itself assured that this alleged attempt, “Headed by several voices that seek impunity, it intends to point out that the sentence in this case was imposed on the basis of a single testimony (from the former employee of the company that delivered the bribes) and on a judicial decision taken in Brazil”.
This “It becomes a new attempt to divert attention from the facts that motivated the aforementioned final prosecution”asserted the Prosecutor’s Office.
In this sense, he pointed out that “the judgment in the Odebrecht case was issued by a court of the National Court of Justice and ratified on appeal and cassation (nine magistrates in total), based on the abundant evidence presented” by the Prosecutor’s Office, which claimed to have obtained it “legally and objective”.
Among the elements that were used to dictate the sentence there are “abbreviated procedures (in which those sentenced assumed their responsibility), testimonies, expert reports and documents.”
“All this burden of proof allowed us to demonstrate -beyond any reasonable doubt- the commission of the crime before the judges who decided to issue and ratify the sentence”added the Prosecutor’s Office.
Judge José Dias Toffoli extended to Glas a decision to annul evidence that benefited Brazilian politicians who were also investigated in the Odebrecht case, including the current vice president, Geraldo Alckmin.
Dias Toffoli thus responded to a request from the defense of the Ecuadorian politician after the evidence obtained from an internal system of the construction company Odebrecht was considered invalid by the high court.
These tests against Jorge Glas “They are null and, therefore, cannot support the accusations” against him when he was Minister of Strategic Sectors in Ecuador, Dias Toffoli said.
The evidence against politicians accused of receiving bribes, obtained in the Drousys and My Web Day B systems, used in the Odebrecht collaboration agreement, are “contaminated” and “cannot be used” as decided by the court.
Glas assured EFE on Saturday that he is preparing a “Roadmap” law to reverse the conviction.
The former vice president said that in his country, with this case with evidence that is now known to have been forged, they created a process of “lawfare” or judicial persecution against him.
The ruling of the Brazilian court, according to Glas, annuls even “effective cooperation” (awarded denunciation) that at the time the Ecuadorian Justice obtained from the Brazilian for the case of illicit association, for which the former vice president was in jail for five years, since the end of 2017.
Those tests were also used for another process known as “Green rice”which later became the case “Bribes”for which Glas and Correa himself (2007-2017), who resides in Belgium and who the Ecuadorian Justice considers him a fugitive, was sentenced to eight years.
Source: EFE
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