Correa says the arrest warrant in Ecuador is part of a "conspiracy"

Rafael Correa

The President of Ecuador Rafael Correa today declared that the order of preventive detention imposed Tuesday by the National Court of Justice of his country is part of 39: a "conspiracy" policy that

The Supreme Court accepted the request of the Attorney General to ask Interpol for the arrest and extradition of Correa after ignoring the law. order to appear Monday in Quito.

Judge Daniella Camacho ordered pre-trial detention at a special hearing during which the precautionary measures imposed on the former plaintiff were reviewed on June 18 after having been criminally linked to the case of the attempt to kidnap the ex-legislator Fernando Balda in Bogotá, August 2012.

In which is his first reaction to the decision, Correa, who lives in Belgium for One year, he recalled Tuesday a Twitter message of November 10, 2017 in which Balda advanced his arrest.

" Balda had already announced in November that there were legal proceedings that would put me in an Interpol warrant .I guess or part of a Plot? Place Your Bets In the next few hours, I will send a video through the networks. Up to always win! ", says the ex-president in a Twitter message.

On June 18, Correa was criminally related to the Balda kidnapping attempt case in Colombia, in 2012, an episode that has already been tried in the neighboring country and for which Ecuador opened a process this year.

The ex-conservative lawmaker, from today part of the private prosecution, claims to have evidence that directly involve Correa in the attempt to abduction

However, the exmandatario claims not to be related to the case and denounces for months a conspiracy of his political enemies.

On the lawsuit against him, in another message Today by the same network, the former president said that the Attorney General in charge, Paul Perez, was "fingered", which was bound to the case "without any evidence", that the judge "is acquiesced in defiance of the National Assembly", And that the precautionary measure the one imposed upon him is "impossible to achieve" .

"Do you know what will be the success of this joke at the international level? Do not worry, everything is a matter of time. We will win! "Concludes he EFE

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