Ecuador considers that a possible granting of diplomatic asylum by Mexico to the former vice president Jorge Glas (2013-2018), who made that request to the Aztec Government on Thursday, the Foreign Ministry said this Friday, warning that it will act with “absolute firmness” if it comes to fruition.
In a statement he indicated that he has informed the ambassador of his position. Raquel Serurwho was summoned to the Chancellery.
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Glas is in the capacity of “Guest” of the Embassy of Mexico in Quitowhere he entered last weekend at a time when the Prosecutor’s Office required his presence in investigations within the framework of the case ‘Reconstruction‘.
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs delivered to the Government of Mexico the relevant documentation provided by the National Court of Justice and the State Attorney General’s Office about the judicial situation of glass.
“Mexico must analyze it carefully, when faced with the request for diplomatic asylum, based on what is established by the Convention on Diplomatic Asylum of 1954, of which both countries are part”he indicated.
And he added that “for him Ecuador a possible granting of diplomatic asylum by Mexicoby virtue of the provisions of Article III of said Convention”.
He adds that the 2003 United Nations Anti-Corruption Conventions and Inter-American against Corruption of 1996, of which Ecuador and Mexico They are also part, “their purpose is to promote, facilitate and support the cooperation of States to prevent, combat and punish corruption.”
And warns that “in the face of a possible granting of diplomatic asylum by Mexicoa situation that Ecuador would deplore, the Chancellery will act with absolute firmness, based on the high interests of the State, within the framework of international law, particularly Convention on Diplomatic Asylum of 1954″.
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Politically persecuted?
Eduardo Franco Loor, Glas’s lawyer, who confirmed to EFE on Thursday that the former vice president requested asylum, justified the request by considering that his client is a politically persecuted person and that he has suffered a “illegal, arbitrary and unconstitutional attack” by the Prosecutor’s Office.
Franco Loor thought that the Prosecutor’s Office has a position of “political revanchism, revenge” because the political movement runner Citizen Revolution, to which it belongs glasspresented in the National Assembly the request for political prosecution for the head of the Public Ministry, Diana Salazar.
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‘Reconstruction’ Case
Glas, who was vice president during part of the governments of Rafael Correa and Lenin Morenowas in prison for a conviction in an illicit association case related to the bribery scandal of the Brazilian construction company Odebrecht.
Last August, Glas said he would seek to overturn that conviction after the Supreme Federal Court of Brazil annul the evidence used against him in the case Odebrechtan issue that also affected other Brazilian politicians, from several Latin American countries and from other parts of the world.
Now the Prosecutor’s Office is investigating it within the framework of the case ‘Reconstruction‘, related to the alleged existence of abuse of public money for the benefit of third parties, natural and legal persons, who were contractors and inspectors of contracts, signed within the framework of the emergency due to the earthquake of April 16, 2016.
This Thursday, the plenary session of the National Assembly (Parliament) refused to authorize the criminal trial against glass if ‘Reconstruction‘, well the Camera He did not obtain the 92 votes (two thirds) that were required.
Upon learning of the decision of the Assemblythe Prosecutor’s Office assured that “authorization is not required” of that organization, then, although the alleged acts would have been committed when glass He was vice president, the process began later.
For this reason, he announced that he will insist on his request for a date and time for the hearing to formulate charges in the case.Reconstruction” of Manabi.
