Rafael Correa, former president of the republic of Ecuador, who are staying in Belgium on Tuesday, in absentia, to eight years in prison for corruption. Seventeen others were given a similar sentence, including former vice-president, Jorge Glas, and the ex-staff of the president.
Correa has in the past always claimed that he was the victim of a political settlement, and it screams, even now his innocence is out. “I don’t know the process and what the judges have to say, ” that’s a LIE. There is absolutely NOTHING proven,” he wrote Tuesday on Twitter.
in Addition to a prison sentence, the other defendants in the injunction order for a period of 25 years, with a political mandate to to to practice. One of the brothers announced it will file an appeal.
Correa and his supporters, according to the district court for nearly $ 8 million received by the companies, including the Brazilian construction group Odebrecht, in exchange for public works contracts. Since Correa in 2017 and was due to retire he lives with his family in the country.
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