Rafael Correa arrived in Venezuela as Ecuador’s National Court turned to Interpol to locate him

Former President of Ecuador Rafael Correa arrived in Venezuela this Friday, As reported EVTV Miami and various Venezuelan media replicated. The American portal published a video in which the former Ecuadorian president is seen received by a person in Caracas.

“Welcome to our capital, your home. Venezuela Caracas. Cradle of our liberator Simon bolivar Yes Francisco de Miranda. may god protect you. Welcome. How are we? Nice to welcome you, ”said the person who greeted Correa and a woman who was by his side.

Until, Correa’s agenda in Venezuela is unknown and the reasons for the visit reported by the Miami portal.

Meanwhile, the National Court of Ecuador, the highest court in the Latin American country, In the last few hours, he used Interpol in Quito to locate the former president, sentenced to eight years in prison for corruption in the corruption case.

By a court decision, to which the Ecuadorian newspaper had access Trade, Judge Walter Macías “must officiate the head of the national unit of Interpol Quito so that he can reportFrom the former president and four former officials and three businessmen also convicted of corruption in the corruption case.

The magistrate, who also asked the international body to provide “DocumentationOn the migratory movements of convicts, he explained that this procedure is a preliminary step to extradition.

Judge Macías’s petition comes three months after Interpol rejected a “red alert” request against the former head of state.

Correa, who has always defended his innocence and denounced being a victim of political persecution, was sentenced on April 7, 2019 to eight years in prison by the National Court of Justice of Ecuador considering that he was guilty of a corruption offense.

The former Ecuadorian president, whose conviction was also a 25-year disqualification for the civil service, he was convicted along with 16 other people, some of whom had served in his government.

According to the Ecuadorian public prosecutor’s office, between 2012 and 2016, several state agents, as well as private entrepreneurs, they were part of a corrupt plot in which public works contracts were awarded for money.

Rafael Correa’s government corruption figures: between $ 30,000 and $ 70,000 million

In November 2019, Ecuador’s anti-corruption secretary at the time, Dora ordonez, assured that corruption in the decade of the Rafael Correa government (2007-2017) gives figures that local and international organizations estimate among the $ 30 billion and $ 70 billion to the detriment of the state.

The official broke down the calculated items of money lost due to corruption in the country, according to various studies. First, he mentioned a consultancy carried out by the United Nations Development Program (UNDP), with the support of the Ecuadorian government, which collects the figure of $ 2.4 billion in five flagship projects.

Known as “megaobras», The report indicates the existence of embezzled funds linked to millionaire overvaluation and an estimate of an additional $ 600 million it would be necessary to start them.

“He was hired in the category ‘special diets“, Direct contracts which did not have a well-defined reference budget and where bribes and percentages of bribes were attested”, declared this Cuenca which held the post of sub- secretary of the entity until its head is appointed on October 21, 2019.

But Ordóñez added a complementary analysis from the National Anti-Corruption Commission, of a civic nature, << Which refers to $ 3,500 million in damages over the ten years of the previous regime, we are therefore talking about a total of $ 35 billion“.

The greater number of this alleged corruption, 70,000 million, which includes the calculation of losses in the Andean nation as a result of this scourge, comes from a regional study by the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) on waste and waste, also considered corrupt practices for the state, and which are calculated around 7% of annual GDP.

“The IDB report refers to 40,000 million it would be part of the increase in the price of works and the diversion of resources, and 30,000 additional because of the inefficiency of the work carried out, ”he stressed.

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