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Quito, EFE

The Ecuadorian Attorney General in Charge, Paúl Pérez, today asked the National Court who will rule on Monday on a call from former President Rafael Correa , confirm the preventive detention against the Exmandatario for his alleged involvement in the attempted abduction of a former legislator.

After declaring that Correa, who resides in Belgium, "did not institute proceedings ordered by the Prosecution and for his defense" ] Perez "asks the National Criminal Court (of the National Court ) to confirm the pre-trial detention for the former president " said the prosecutor's office on his Twitter profile.

The petition took place at the hearing of National Court of Justice to resolve the appeal of the pre-trial detention order filed by the Correa Defense, added in this social network in which he pointed out that the decision of the court is known It was 14:00 local time today .

On July 3, the National Court accepted the request of the Attorney General's Office to request the arrest of Interpol and the extradition of Correa after having ignored the 39, injunction to appear in 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 of the family. Former legislator Fernando Balda

Correa, who lives in Belgium for a year, had to appear on July 2 before the national court of Quito but went to the consulate of the Ecuador in Belgium, considering the completion of the precautionary measure that had been imposed upon him after his criminal badociation with the case.

The former president, who ruled Ecuador between 2007 and 2017 had previously appeared the Consulate in Belgium by videoconference at a voluntary hearing in the phase of the year. 39, instruction of the case.

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

According to Balda, the attempted abduction took place in Colombia in August 2012, when five people, four men and a woman approached him, that he was violently thrown into a vehicle and kept in detention for about an hour and a half, after which he was saved.

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