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The Ecuadorian Public Prosecutor on Tuesday demanded that pre-trial detention be ordered against former Rafael Correa head of state related to a kidnapping case in Colombia of a former Ecuadorian legislator in 2012, request accepted by the National Court of Justice (CNJ)
The request was made by Paúl Pérez, the Attorney General in charge, during a hearing review on the precautionary measures applied to Correa in the case Fernando Balda.
Correa, who has been living in Belgium for a year, had to go to the CNJ in Quito on Monday, but of his own free will he appeared at the Consulate of Ecuador in Belgium, as alleged compliance with the precautionary measure that was imposed after the criminal badociation to the case on June 18.
According to the judicial disposition that day, the former agent was to report to the CNJ every 15 days of July 2 provisional measure which, in the opinion of the Public Prosecutor , ignored and therefore corresponds to the imposition of preventive detention.
The Attorney requested that Interpol be informed of the arrest request of the ex-president by issuing a red alert for his capture and extradition
Lawyer solicited to substitute precautionary measures
For his part, the lawyer of Correa, Caupolicán Ochoa, asked the judge to reject the application for damages. Arrest and accept a substitution of precautionary measures so that Correa could appear at the Consulate in Belgium.
Ochoa also argued that this was also the original position of the Crown and that it is the judge who decided to seek his appearance in Quito.
The former president, who ruled Ecuador between 2007 and 2017, and had previously appeared from the consulate in Belgium via videoconferencing mediation in a voluntary hearing in the phase of the war. investigation of the case.
According to Balda, the attempted kidnapping occurred in Colombia on the night of August 13, 2012 when he was approached by five people, four men and a woman, who l & rsquo; Violently pushed into a vehicle and detained him for about an hour and a half, after which he was saved.
Correa rejects any participation and badures that there is no evidence of his alleged personal involvement in the facts and complaint being the subject of 39, political and media persecution.
Attorney hitchhiking, link without any evidence, judge acquiesce to the outrage of the National Assembly, measure Do you know how far this joke will succeed at the international level ?
Do not worry, it's just a matter of time.
We will win! https://t.co/zjjp67gl4D– Rafael Correa (@MashiRafael) July 3, 2018
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