The majority legislators seek to bring the document to justice in the United States, Colombia, Panama and Venezuela.
For them everything is part of a political persecution. The legislators of correísmo Roberto Cuero, Gabriela Molina and Comps Córdova rejected the majority report of the National Assembly’s Oversight Commission on the Sucre-Foglocons case. There, indications are made of an alleged corruption scheme that took advantage of the Sucre System to launder assets.
What the majority report says
The conclusion reached by the Commission, chaired by Fernando Villavicencio, is that this “would have allowed the former President of the Republic Rafael Correa to implement and regulate through executive decree 395, togives the operability with which the Sucre System would work, the same one that apparently would serve as the setting for a criminal plot ”.
The report indicates that the Commission was able to identify the specific references of the country’s public institutions that established that most of the commercial transactions carried out under the Sucre System were “Fictitious and overrated” and that “without the existence of a hierarchically organized criminal structure with defined roles, the alleged offenses could not be carried out.”
The official Ana Belén Cordero, who supported that document, assured that they will send copies to the prosecutors of United States, Colombia, Panama and Venezuela, where cases related to Álex Saab, who is identified as a figurehead of Chavismo, and Álvaro Pulido, wanted by the North American justice, are investigated.
The case investigates an alleged money laundering between companies in the region, for the sale of metal construction plates that left Ecuador at a cIt was estimated at $ 200,000 dollars, while the Venezuelan company that was in charge of the payment presented records for $ 4,159.9 million. For that the Sucre system was used, which then operated in the region. In 72 hours the money from the transaction went to tax havens.
Villavicencio took the report to the Prosecutor’s Office
The 125-page document was approved on Monday, December 13, 2021 by five legislators at the legislative table, He led the report to the Prosecutor’s Office because it considers that there are elements that must be investigated by the Ecuadorian Justice for the possible committing of: illicit enrichment, embezzlement, tax fraud and money laundering.
Who is it oppose the report?
Despite this, the legislators of Correísmo insist that everything is a “political move.” That is why they prepared a minority report in which they cited a summary of the Prosecutor’s Office on the Foglocons case in 2014. That year a judge declared the case null and void. that was being continued against the company. In addition, the assembly members indicate that the Sucre system was not created to launder money.
Roberto Emilio Leather Medina he was elected by the district 1 of Guayas by the UNES list. He was charged with alleged illicit enrichment in 2012 in the case known as Comisarías. Two years later, the Guayas Prosecutor’s Office ordered the investigation file. The decision was accepted by the Provincial Court of Justice.
Leather had been indicted for acquiring a beach house on an irregular basis, but was dismissed when he proved that he did so through a mortgage loan. This cost him his position as Governor of Guayas.
The assembly member today considers that the majority report on Sucre-Foglocons was created with a “bias.” He rejected an extract from the document indicating that money laundered from Sucre was allegedly used in 2013 in the electoral campaign of Correa and Jorge Glas. “It is the same plot as Pamela Martínez’s notebook (Bribery case), in which she wrote monetary values, up to pennies in the time that a Quito-Guayaquil flight lasts.”
Comps Pascacio Córdova Díaz (UNES) won a seat for Sucumbíos. He is a Social Communicator by profession and this is the first public office he has held after winning an election. He spoke with LA HORA and indicated that he did not support the majority report because it was about “using the commission” to “falsify the truth.”
Maria Gabriela Molina Menéndez, a correista assemblyman for the district 2 of Manabí. His name appeared in the list of legislators who had reports from the Comptroller’s Office. In her case, the review of the control body occurred when she was working as a Portoviejo district director in the Ministry of Economic and Social Inclusion.
In the gloss DNPR-05385-80 the processes of legality, qualification and delivery of resources were examined ”to operate bonds granted later of the earthquake of April 16, 2016. The entity established an amount of $ 898,655 as individual liability.
In a letter, the assemblywoman responded to these observations. He said that this predetermination of responsibilities was not related to any contracting of works or services but to administrative aspects.
