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(Caracas, July 4. News24) .- The former president of Ecuador, Rafael Correa, denounced on Wednesday a "plot" of the government Lenin's current Moreno ] after the Ecuadorian justice issued a warrant for his alleged involvement in the kidnapping of an opponent in Colombia in 2012.
"There are a whole road map (…) There is a whole plot ". Correa in an interview with the press agency France Presse (AFP) in Brussels, expressing his confidence that Interpol will reject the red circular issued by Ecuadorian justice because, in his opinion, it is about A "political" affair. [19659004] Correa, who ruled Ecuador between 2007 and 2017, is accused of unlawful association and kidnapping of former MP Fernando Balda according to the ministry public, but the former leader denies any involvement and regrets to be bound no evidence.
For the former socialist president, who resides in Belgium with his family since he left office in 2017, the "government" of his successor Vladimir Lenin Moreno is "undoubtedly" behind the "Conspiracy". "He is behind all this, the judiciarization of politics."
According to Correa, Moreno "met Balda, with the previous prosecutor to put Jorge Glas in jail," referring to his vice president in 2013 and 2017, sentenced to six years in prison for receiving 13, $ 5 million from the Brazilian construction company Odebrecht .
This "road map" would also include Quito's call to members of the assembly to please lift your "presidential immunity" and try to put pressure on key people, such as Pablo Romero, former Head of the National Intelligence Secretariat.
About Romero, who resides in Spain, also weighs a request for extradition in connection with the investigation that is still ongoing and that has already led to the arrest of three intelligence agents and a former police commander
– Life and death in Belgium –
Judge Daniela Camacho Tuesday the "pre-trial detention" against the former popular president of 55, at the request of the prosecutor, for violation of the injunction 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 on Monday and as he l '. also made the May 24, when he dismissed his participation in the alleged kidnapping.
Amidst his fierce struggle with his successor and former ally Lenin Moreno, the former president had been targeted by justice following a request by Balda, who had accused him of having ordered his abduction when he had fled to Bogotá in 2012.
The Colombian police frustrated him. Shortly thereafter, Balda was expelled from Colombia at the request of Quito for several crimes and imprisoned for more than two years for insulting as well as for attacking the security of the state.
Interpol's red circular, the former socialist president felt that this "will have no success", since this police co-operation organization "takes its time, analyzes the case and if he is a politician he rejects it "and" more political than it is not there. "
Rafael Correa said that he appealed the decision of the court, although without hope and with the aim of "being able to address international tribunals". And he did not rule out seeking asylum in Belgium, a country that would never "treat" his extradition, in his opinion.
To be prosecuted in the Balda case, the agent x should be in Ecuador because it is an offense for which the national law prevents trial in absentia although that he has excluded from traveling because of the situation in the country, where there are no "guarantees", and considered this scenario as "almost a suicide". in Belgium, Professor Ludovic Hennebel and lawyer Christophe Marchand denounced in a statement "the feeling of cruelty and judicial harassment" against Correa, whose "life and integrity are threatened".
"Why do I have to sacrifice? Back to my family? I offered my family after 10 years of marginalization to devote myself to my country (…) years of peace in Belgium . Even live and die in Belgium, "added the former president, whose wife is Belgian, to AFP
According to information provided by AFP
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