The prosecutor's office of Ecuador will not investigate the financial support of the Maduro regime to Rafael Correa

The Ecuadorian prosecutor's office announced Wednesday that it was giving up investigating a government complaint about alleged misappropriation of funds from Venezuela to a political institute created by the former opposition president, Rafael Correa, residing in Belgium.

"After badyzing the documentation entered today, the prosecutor's office concludes that he does not register any new criminis with whom a preliminary criminal investigation can be opened", the accuser said in a statement.

He added that "the events described do not constitute an indication of the commission of a crime, let alone of a behavior punishable by criminal prosecution" in the country.

Earlier, the anti-corruption secretary, Iván Grandasubmitted to the Office of the Prosecutor a request forthe Venezuelan government's allegation of embezzlement to finance the Eloy Alfaro Institute of Political and Economic Thought ", according to the research organization.

President Lenin Moreno claimed that the political organization created by Correa had received $ 281,000 from Nicolás Maduro's dictatorship. State Bank for Economic and Social Development of Venezuela (Bands).

After the government complaint, Correa (2007-2017) was once again in the line of fire of Moreno's accusations, his former ally and former vice president, tried to destabilize his government.

The former president is the subject of a warrant for arrest in Ecuador for his alleged involvement in the brief kidnapping of an opponent in Colombia.

Granda told the press that the prosecutor's office "She will have to check if these funds are legal, where they come from, what they have served and she will know how to determine the type of crime that she has to establish."

He also asked the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to check whether the institute complied with the standard governing foundations and social organizations.. Ecuador states that they can not perform activities different from those for which they were created, nor engage in partisan political activities because they are grounds for dissolution.

Last Friday, from Chile, Moreno accused Maduro of trying to destabilize his government by funding Correa's institute, with whom maintains a struggle that fractured the party in power in Ecuador.

(With information from AFP)