Three months have passed since Lenín Moreno said that he would return to the country, according to a notification that he himself sent to the National Assembly on August 17, 2021. He lives in Paraguay, while in Ecuador the Prosecutor’s Office advances with the investigations, his return It is uncertain.
Former President Lenín Moreno left the country on August 17, 2021. He gave notice of his departure minutes before boarding the plane; he sent it to the president of the Assembly, Guadalupe Llori. Article 144 of the Constitution stipulates that former presidents must notify the Assembly of their departure from the country, up to one year after ceasing their functions. In the case of Lenín Moreno, it would be until May 24, 2022.
In the letter addressed to Llori, he reported that he was going to the United States for work and personal reasons. She said that she would travel for three months. He left in the middle of two open investigations that could link him to the INA Papers case and in the contract for the Coca Codo Sinclair hydroelectric plant.
offshore companies
Ina Papers is known for the process of creating an offshore company created in Belize, in 2012 by a brother and close friends of the former president, through which goods such as an apartment on the Mediterranean coast were purchased, according to the Investigative Journalism portal. .
On September 27, 2021, the Assembly Oversight Commission called the former president to appear on October 1, 2021. The Assembly members of the Commission wanted to consult him about the creation of the company Ina Investment Corp. They also wanted Moreno to explain the origin of the assets he received while living in Geneva, as Secretary General of the United Nations for Disability and Accessibility.
Moreno excused himself alleging that he had no relationship with said company. In a letter addressed to Santiago Becdach, rapporteur secretary of the Commission, he denied having a stake in Ina Investment Corp, nor assets outside the country. He accused the call to appear as a “political spectacle”, in addition, he assured in the letter that the Assembly’s oversight process is for officials in active service, that he is a former president and is no longer due to this type of control public. The answer was given through his Twitter account
On November 23, 2021, the Plenary Assembly approved a resolution declaring the deadline for the former president to be out of the country. However, on November 18, through his twitter account, Luis Almagro, Secretary General of the Organization of American States (OAS) wrote: “I had a conversation today with the former President of #Ecuador Lenin Moreno, who agreed to be Commissioner of the Secretary General of the OAS for Disability Issues.”. Which meant that Lenín Moreno had no plans to return to Ecuador as he said at the beginning.
On Friday, February 11, 2022, there were two raids on property in Quito and Guayaquil related to the Ina Papers case, a company linked to an alleged bribery crime committed between 2010 and 2018. The Prosecutor’s Office announced the seizure of documents and computers that “would contain accounting information, whose existence was denied to #FiscaliaEc and that will be analyzed within this investigation”
