Ricardo Rivera had pending compensation to the State

Together with his nephew Jorge Glas, he had to pay $14.1 million in compensation to the State after being found guilty in the Odebrecht case.

Ricardo Rivera, deceased this Saturday January 15, 2022, He had been arrested on June 2, 2017 in Guayaquil. The agents who captured him had followed him for 14 days. On December 13 of that same year, he was sentenced in the first instance for the corruption case of Odebrecht. The court imposed six years in prison. But what other measures should I comply with? River? And what will happen with economic sanctions?

1.- In 2017 it was ordered that Riveraalong with his nephew Jorge Glas, former vice president of Ecuador, and six other people pay $33.4 million to State as repair of the crime of illicit association in the framework of corruption of Odebrecht.

2.- Specifically to Rivera and Glas they were ordered to pay $14.1 million (7 million each). On January 7, judges Byron Guillén, Felipe Córdova and Javier de la Cadena, who make up the court for executing the sentence, issued a mandate for the Attorney General’s Office to determine the assets and property that each one had. This step is necessary for a subsequent seizure and sale of the objects that allow the debt to be settled.

3.- Rivera He would have served his sentence of 2,160 days in prison on May 2, 2023. He had been free since December 9, 2021 after receiving the penitentiary benefit of change of regime to semi-open (it allows him to leave prison). He expected to serve the remaining 508 days away from prison.

4.- He had to use an electronic surveillance device (shackle) that monitored him 24 hours a day. The national care service for prisoners (Snai) confirmed after his death that the shackle will be removed from his ankle.

5.- Judge Luis Jiménez, who granted him the change of regime, also limited his mobility. At the beginning he pointed out that Rivera could transit only in Guayas. Later it expanded that space and included Quito since Rivera He had to travel to the capital to complete the proceedings as part of an investigation for possible money laundering.

6.- The judge also imposed the prohibition of leaving the country and the periodic presentation, each month, before the Prosecutor’s office closest to his home.

Criminal lawyer Paúl Ocaña Merino indicated that with the death of Ricardo Rivera, all legal proceedings against you are extinguished. In the case of the financial penalty for Odebrecht, indicated that the sentence becomes an “executive title” that the State can collect.

“If I have a debt, I have to cover it with assets,” he said. It is the Attorney General’s Office that must indicate the number and value of everything that belonged to Rivera.

Upon death, all assets would go to his heirs. The Civil Code provides that if an heir observes that the debts are greater than the benefits, he can repudiate the inheritance and not accept it. (DPV)

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