The diligence should have taken place last week, but it was suspended because neither Alvarado nor his lawyers were connected to the hearing.
A judge from the Quito Criminal Unit summoned Fernando Alvarado, former Secretary of Communication of Correismo, to the indictment hearing on February 4 at 09:00.
The Prosecutor’s Office accuses him of failing to comply with the legitimate order of a competent authority by removing the electronic shackle that monitored him when he was being investigated by a alleged case of corruption that was archived.
The diligence will be carried out in the North Judicial Complex, located at Av. Amazonas and Juan José de Villalengua. On this occasion, the judge did not give the option of holding the hearing electronically, as he did previously. “The parties are informed that for the appearance of this hearing they must take all biosecurity measures.”
Days before, on Friday, January 28, 2022, the hearing was to take place. But a public defender asked the Judge Geovanny Freire to declare the judicial appointment failed, since the lawyers of Alvarado they didn’t connect via telematics they did not appear in person. The judge suspended her so that the public attorney reviews the file.
Article 282 of the Current Penal Code (COIP) sanctions with up to three years in prison Non-compliance with decisions of competent authority; that is, the person who fails to comply with orders, specific or legally due prohibitions, addressed to him by competent authority within the framework of its legal powers. (DPV)
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