Correa described the Ecuadorian judge as “scoundrel” for signing the request and said that by leading Lasso to the Presidency, they gave him the Judiciary
The president of the National Court of Justice of Ecuador, Iván Saquicela, announced this Friday, April 22, that he signed the request for the extradition to Belgium of former president Rafael Correa, who is requested by the authorities of his country and sentenced to eight years in prison for the crime of bribery.
Correa was convicted of bribery and political disqualification for 25 years in the ‘Bribery 2012-2016’ case, a plot in which illegal contributions were received at the Carondelet presidential palace for the irregular financing of the Alianza País government movement, in exchange for the awarding of million-dollar state contracts to companies, including the Brazilian construction company Odebrecht.
Saquicela stated that he had signed the extradition document one day before it became known that Brussels had granted Correa political asylum with refugee status.
The former president described Judge Saquicela as a “scoundrel” because in his opinion “he never tires of making a fool of himself,” recalling that he was one of those who disqualified him as a candidate and allowed Guillermo Lasso to be president.
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This scoundrel never tires of making a fool of himself.
Remember that he was one of the judges of the “psychic influence” that prevented me from being a candidate and made Lasso president.
That is why they gave him the Presidency of the Court.#LosCorruptosAlwaysWereThem https://t.co/CwxHeAczhy– Rafael Correa (@MashiRafael) April 22, 2022
The resolution that protects Rafael Correa from being extradited -at least for now- is dated April 15 when the General Commissioner for Refugees and Stateless Persons (CGRS) of the European country granted him refugee status.
Lawyer Christophe Marchand said that his client’s asylum application had been launched after a legal process began in Ecuador in 2018 that related him to the alleged kidnapping of an opponent in 2012, the so-called “Balda case.”
On that occasion, Interpol rejected the request for arrest for extradition purposes from Belgium, considering that “the retention of the data was not compatible with its obligation to ensure effective cooperation between police authorities within the framework of respect for the Universal Declaration of Human rights”.
Correa, related to ideologies such as those present in Venezuela, Nicaragua, Bolivia and Cuba, has lived in Belgium since 2017 because his wife, Ann Malherbede, is a citizen of that European nation.
With information from The universe / Swiss Info
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