The Government of Ecuador presented evidence to the Office of the Prosecutor of the alleged financing of Nicolás Maduro's dictatorship to Rafael Correa

The Government of Ecuador handed over this Wednesday to the Office of the Prosecutor documents that would prove the alleged financing of Nicolás Maduro's dictatorship to a foundation of thought linked to the former president Rafael Correa.

The documentation was delivered by Iván Granda, Anti-Corruption Secretary, after the Acting Attorney General, Ruth Palacios, announced – in accordance with Granda – the opening of a preliminary inquiry following the denunciation of the case by the head of state, Lenin Moreno, recently in Chile.

Last Friday, at a summit in Santiago de Chile during which the new organization was presented Prosur, Moreno announced that "There are destabilizing attempts by former leaders of Ecuador and Venezuela."

Attempts, badured the president, involve the management of Venezuelan public resources, "to finance actions against the Ecuadorian democratic regime and the region".

"We came to cooperate with the law and provided important information that will allow the prosecutor's office to investigate the legality of the funds and their use," Granda said while leaving the Attorney General's office in Quito. the documentation.

According to the Presidency, the Economic and Social Development Bank of Venezuela, Bands, transferred $ 281,000 to the Institute of Political and Economic Thought "Eloy Alfaro", "feed the personal accounts of former officials".

"This institute has made transfers to the accounts of Rafael Correa for a total amount of $ 96,200 and his former employees between $ 34,000 and $ 6,000," said the institution.

The anticorruption secretary felt scandalous that supposedly this money was intended Venezuela, where the population is going through a complex economic situation.

And he added that the lawyer Antonio Ingroia He badured that the Institute "had paid for it to come to the defense, overseeing the case of Fernando Balda's international kidnapping", for which Correa, who ruled Ecuador between 2007 and 2017, has been brought to trial under plagiarism.

Last September, this lawyer and other lawyers appeared as observers at the Balda trial pre-hearing.

In November, the National Court of Justice summoned Correa and three other former officials, two of whom are now found guilty, for the abduction of Balda in 2012.

The Anti-Corruption Secretary today reminded that the Institute was solely for the purpose of establish political reflection actionsHe therefore asked the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to investigate the results of this foundation.

Consulted by the EFE Agency on the information provided to the Office of the Prosecutor, Granda specified that she presented documents on the status of the foundation, its partners, its activities and the use of the web page. .

Moreno came to power in May 2017, but less than two months after his accession to the presidency, the first differences between the two diverged, first from the deficit left by the previous administration and then from the previous administration. ideological reasons.

End of 2017 the movement Alianza País, of which both were part, split into two political groups.

The new government launched a campaign against corruption in the country in 2018, during which several investigations were opened in Correa.

The former president, who resides in Belgium and denies any connection with this alleged corruption, was ready to open their accounts before the announcement of the opening of the investigation.

"What a good thing, prosecutor, what is the" investigation "number 24?" Asked cynically by her Twitter account, adding: "What you need, tell me, to open all my accounts, badets and taxes."