Ecuador: The case of Rafael Correa was armed, but it had been written while he was no longer president

The only difference is that in this case the originals are in the hands of justice and it has just been shown that evidence of alleged corruption between 2012 and 2016 during the government of Rafael Correa were actually written in 2018that is, more than two years after the badumptions made therein. Despite this, sentences like "appear in annotations"today he came to my office"and the figures of the supposed payments that include the detail up to one hundred.

In Ecuador, the scandal erupted last June during a raid on the house of the former councilor of Correa, Pamela Martínez, a notebook was found with a details of alleged illegal payments to senior Correa government officials by multinational contractors awarded public works.

However, considering evidence of expertise, Martínez, jailed since May of this year, said that the notebook had not been written under Correa 's government, but that it' s not. had been last year "before an impulse".

"I was restless, I was traveling in Quito – Guayaquil plane in 2018 and I wanted to take notes on the whole process. I had a notebook in my briefcase and I started taking notes that are not chronologically related to the facts noted there, "Martinez said in court.

However the detail of the writings generated a lot of doubts as well as descriptions in the present tense.

Three months ago, former President Correa had already questioned the authenticity of the conclusion. "A "notebook" that appears 20 days after Pamela Martínez was in prison, while they searched their home in Quito. Who can believe that? ", he wrote on Twitter on June 1.

This Wednesday, after reading the statement of the late former counselor, Correa again used Twitter for his release: "Pamela Martinez is lying, because it has an agreement with the prosecutor Diana Salazar, whose obsession is to persecute us. It was already recognized that the notebook was a fake Now we will show that we are in 2019. In all countries with the rule of law, the prosecutor would be prosecuted against a huge fraud, "he said. writes the former president.

Turn Viviana Bonilla, former candidate for mayor of Guayaquil in 2014, wrote on his Twitter account: "The notebook written by a pulse during a 35-minute flight contains phrases such as "today, he came to my office", referring to a hypothesis formulated six years ago. The most striking is the great memory of Mrs. Martinez, who remembers to the penny of each transaction alleged."

As part of the investigation, the National Court of Ecuador issued to Interpol the arrest warrant against the former president who has resided in Belgium since the middle of 2017. In addition to Correa, his former vice president is also being processed. Jorge Glas, your former ministers Walter Solís, Maria de los Ángeles Duarte and Vinicio Alvarado, your former legal secretary Alexis Mera and about twenty senior officials and former cabinet members.