The Tribunal confirms pre-trial detention against Correa for kidnapping Balda – La República CE

The Court of the National Court of Justice unanimously ratified the detention Preventive against the former president Rafael Correa decided by Judge Daniella Camacho, after the prosecutor's request for his alleged involvement in the abduction of the ex-legislator Fernando Balda .

The Tribunal was composed of Judges Marco Rodríguez, Iván Saquicela and Richard Villagómez. The three deliberated from 10:50 on Monday until 14:00. The Attorney General of Ecuador Paúl Pérez had asked shortly before that pre-trial detention against the exmandatario be ratified as a precautionary measure.

After declaring that Correa, who resides in Belgium, "was not subjected to the proceedings ordered by the Prosecutor and his defense," Perez "asks the National Criminal Court (of the National Court ) to confirm the pre-trial detention of the former president " specified the prosecutor's profile of Twitter

On July 3, the Court of Cbadation accepted the request of the Prosecutor General's Office to ask Interpol l & # 39; Arrest and extradition of Correa, after ignoring the precautionary measure of coming to Quito a day earlier.

Judge Daniella Camacho ordered the pre-trial detention of Correa during a special hearing during which the precautionary measures imposed in June were revised after being criminally linked to the kidnapping case of former legislator Fernando Balda

Correa, who has been living in Belgium for a year, had to appear on 2 July in the national court of Quito, but went to the consulate of Ecuador in Belgium, considering him the former president, who ruled Ecuador between 2007 and 2017, had previously appeared from the Consulate in Belgium by videoconference to a voluntary hearing in the phase of 39, investigation of the case.

Before entering into court today, Correa's lawyer, Caupolicán Ochoa, said that the prison order was struck, arbitrary, disproportionate, unlawful and contrary to human rights. "

According to Balda, the attempted kidnapping took place in Colombia in August 2012, when he was approached by five people, four men and a woman, who was violently thrown into a vehicle and detained for about an hour and a half, after which she was saved.

Correa rejects any participation, badures that there is no evidence of his alleged personal involvement in the facts and the complaint that is subject to political and media persecution.