Izquierdo was called by the Prosecutor’s Office to render his version this Tuesday at 12:00, for the death of Naomi Arcentales.
The Council of the Judiciary issued resolution 082-2015 six years ago. It is a document that has the appointments of 121 fiscal agents. In the list of new officials of the Prosecutor’s Office, the name of Juan Carlos Izquierdo, naomi’s partner Arcentales, found dead on Sunday, December 12, in a hotel room in Manta (Manabí).
According to that document, the prosecutor obtained, in April 2015, the highest score to occupy one of the seven places that were opened for Manabí. His rating reached 98.83 points out of 100. The position was won after going through a contest of merits and opposition and citizen challenge that began a year earlier.
Izquierdo’s cases
The prosecutor Juan Carlos Izquierdo is temporarily suspended by the Judicial Council. According to his lawyer, Julio Cueva, that disciplinary decision has not yet been notified to your client.
The lawyer also confirmed that Izquierdo appears in the Prosecutor’s Office system as “suspect” inside the case for the death of Naomi Arcentales. At first it was said that she committed suicide, but now the authorities have opened an investigation to find out the causes of her death.
In the six years of his career within the Office of the Prosecutor, Izquierdo has investigated cases of gender violence and femicide. For example, on December 21, 2015, as soon as he started his work as an investigator, he requested preventive detention against the suspect of a crime. of attempted femicide in Chone.
The investigations carried out at that time by Izquierdo indicated that the aggressor struck his wife’s head with a tube. The prosecutor presented a medical report on the victim, who remained in a coma in a health home in Guayaquil. He himself had access to other expertise and took it as evidence to demand the pre-trial detention of the aggressor. In that expert report it was pointed out that the woman had been pregnant, but as a result of the injuries, she lost the baby.
In 2018, Juan Carlos Izquierdo led the investigations into the murder of a woman in the manabita canton of Sucre. The official page of the Prosecutor’s Office collects that Izquierdo went to a medical home where the suspect was. There you made charges for femicide. The penalty for this crime is 22 to 26 years in prison, according to article 141 of the Comprehensive Penal Code. Investigations determined that the 48-year-old woman was attacked with a White weapon by his partner, in a sparsely populated part of his community.
Current proceedings
The lawyer Julio Cueva said yesterday that his client remains in Ecuador and that “Has not gone abroad” as reported on social media. In fact, he sent a photograph to the LA HORA office as proof of his stay in the country.
In the image you can see the prosecutor sitting. He looks at the camera and shows the cover of a supplement to a Guayaquil newspaper dated yesterday (December 19). It is in the middle of two walls and it is not possible to see any reference to the place where it could be taken. “He lives in Manabí. For now I can confirm that he is in the country ”, Cueva responded when asked about Izquierdo’s exact location.
The Ministry of Government also does not have records about their departure through regular ports or airports.
The lawyer also pointed out that until yesterday afternoon, December 20, 2021, Izquierdo had not been notified about a diligence that is scheduled to take place today at 12:00. It is about the taking of his version by the death of Arcentales. “They have not notified him of anything. I presume that they have sent (the notification) to the institutional mail. But he is suspended and does not have access ”. Yesterday, the legal representative sought to speak with the prosecutor in the case so that they could be notified at another address and have another date for the delivery of the testimony.
The lawyer for the victim’s family, Luigi García, asked that the proceedings be carried out correctly, “we have all already been notified. The other party’s lawyer already knows him. Then he must come forward to cooperate. “
He criticized that the taking of the version is carried out in Manta, since the Prosecutor’s Office had ordered the transfer of the file to Guayaquil. The intention of moving the investigations to that city was not to “become contaminated”, since one of the suspects acts as a fiscal agent for that province. “What is the point of transferring the file, but the proceedings are carried out in Manabí,” he questioned.
After Naomi’s death chat conversations in which she he allegedly recounted alleged physical and verbal assaults on his partner. A video also circulated in which it is seen that she is allegedly beaten by Izquierdo in public. It’s all part of the investigations.
