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Quito, EFE
An Ecuadorian court investigating the kidnapping of an opposition politician in 2012, in Colombia, said today the failure of take the version of the former president Rafael Correa, related in the case and who had to testify before the embbady in Brussels, where he resides.
The Office of the Attorney General of the State, in his account of Twitter reported that the hearing for the declaration of Correa provided for this afternoon, through a videoconference.
"Due to the absence of ex-President Rafael C., bankruptcy proceedings were declared to take versions, telematically from the Consulate of Ecuador in Brussels , in Belgium, "said the Attorney General's office, without giving more details.
For his part, Fernando Molina, one of Correa's lawyers, indicated in several local media that
the exmandatario did not appear at the hearing in reason for an alleged "lack of collateral" for his client, on which weighs a request for capture, determined by the court that follows the case.
"We carried out the corresponding badysis and we determined, within the framework of the technical defense, that there is no sufficient guarantee for the former president Rafael Correa can make his version, "he said in statements quoted by the newspaper El Comercio
. Defendant has every readiness to cooperate with the law and expand its version in the case that investigates the complaint of the former legislator Fernando Balda, an opponent of Correa who claims that his kidnapping in Colombia was on order of the ex-governor
who lives with his family in Belgium since he left the presidency in mid-2017 badures that the l & # 39; Balda's affair is a plot of political persecution in his country. The judge following the case, Daniella Camacho, ordered on June 18 that Correa appear every 15 days at the National Court of Justice in Quito, as a precautionary measure, and dismissed a
Camacho, then, ordered pre-trial detention and asked for the capture of Correa who, according to his defense, is studying the possibility of seeking asylum in Belgium where his wife is from , Ann Malherbe.
The exmandatario was linked to the attempted kidnapping of Balda, a case already tried in Colombia and that occurred on the night of August 13, 2012 where she was He was approached in Bogota by five people, four men and a woman, who allegedly brutally introduced him into a vehicle
Balda was later rescued by the Colombian police after an hour and a half thanks to the call of D & B A taxi driver. ]
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