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Former President of Ecuador Rafael Correa denounced a "conspiracy" of Lenin Moreno's current government, after Ecuadorian justice issued a warrant for his alleged involvement in the country. Kidnapping of an opponent in Colombia in 2012
"There is a whole road map (…) There is quite a plot," said Correa in an interview in Brussels, expressing his trust that Interpol will reject the red circular issued by Ecuadorian justice, since, its trial, it is a "political" case.
Correa, who ruled Ecuador between 2007 and 2017, is accused of unlawful badociation and kidnapping of former deputy minister Fernando Balda, according to the Attorney General's office but the ex-leader denies any involvement and regrets proof. "
For the former socialist, who lives in Belgium with his family since he left power in 2017, the" government "of his successor, Lenin Moreno, is" without a doubt "behind the "conspiracy" 19659005] "He is behind all this, the judiciarization of politics." According to Correa, Moreno "met Balda, the former prosecutor, to imprison Jorge Glas", in reference to his vice president between 2013 and 2017, sentenced to six years in prison for receiving $ 13.5 million from Brazilian construction company Odebrecht This "road map" would also include the call for Quito to the members of the badembly in favor of the lifting of their "presidential immunity" and the attempt to put pressure on the key people, like Pablo Romero, former head of the National Secretariat of Intelligence
About Romero, who lives in Spain, also weighs a request for extradition of years of the investigation still ongoing and that has already led to the arrest of three intelligence officers and a former police commander.
Judge Daniela Camacho also ordered Tuesday "pre-trial detention" against the 55-year-old popular exmandatario, at the prosecutor's request, for failing to comply with the summons to appear periodically before the National Court of Justice (CNJ)) in Quito
Correa defended his right, as a resident abroad, to appear before the consulate of his country, as he did Monday and as May 24, when he rejected his involvement in the alleged kidnapping The politicized justice dictated imprisonment for the best president of Ecuador @MashiRafael
Correa.
It is part of an infamous political persecution against a leader who generated prosperity, equity and stability for the Ecuadorians
With more reason we go to the streets of Quito on the 5th July
– Ricardo Patiño (@ RicardoPatinoEC) 4 July 2018
Amidst his fierce fight with his successor and exalted Lenin Moreno, the former president had been targeted by justice at the request of Balda, who had accused him of ordering his abduction while he had fled to Bogotá in 2012.
Colombian police frustrated Shortly after, Balda was deported from Colombia at the request of Quito to answer for several crimes and was imprisoned for more than two years for insulting, as well as for attacking the security of the state
. The former Socialist president believes that this "will not be successful" since this organization of police cooperation "takes time, badyzes the case and, if it is political, rejects it. ", and" more political than that there is not "
AFP
