2024-06-09 11:08:26
This Monday, June 3, 2024, the listening to passed off on the Nationwide Courtroom of Justice, within the north of Quito, the place Mayra Salazar and Daniel Salcedo gave testimony within the Purga case from 9:00 a.m.
The Purge case investigates a community of corruption in justice, particularly within the Courtroom of Guayas, the place it’s presumed that judges accepted bribes in alternate for issuing favorable rulings.
Thus far, the Prosecutor’s Workplace has prosecuted 12 individuals for alleged organized crime. Through the course of, Daniel Salcedo admitted: “I’ve been a part of the corruption plot of the judges, I do know in regards to the corruption plot.”
He revealed particulars about his participation, mentioning Choose Reinaldo C., who allegedly requested him for $300,000 to acquire home arrest or precautionary measures. Confronted with the refusal, Salcedo says that he tried to flee the nation, however suffered a airplane accident.
After the accident, he said that they supplied him the potential for enhancing his scenario in alternate for cash, however when he rejected it, he was transferred to El Inca jail in Quito.
In his statements, Salcedo additionally implicated different individuals within the corruption scheme, together with former Vice President Jorge Glas, who was allegedly paid an quantity to affect his court docket case.
Based on the statements, in 2022 a lawyer launched him to Banny Molina, choose of Manabí. This official would have supplied to launch him, however, first, he would ship an individual to Jail 4 in Quito to barter.
Salcedo indicated that that negotiator was Christian R. However he not solely met with him, but in addition with former vice chairman Jorge Glas, who was additionally detained in El Inca. The quantity for the negotiation would have been $150,000.
Supposedly, Glas’s case was already agreed upon with “Virgilio.” Salcedo mentioned he didn’t keep in mind the precise final title of this individual. What he did point out is that he paid the $150,000.
Daniel Salcedo and Mayra Salazar
Throughout his testimony, Salcedo additionally revealed that he met Mayra Salazar by earlier connections, however that they had not bodily met till then. Based on his testimony, Salcedo described the assembly at Salazar’s home, the place they mentioned her authorized scenario.
«Sadly, throughout my coma interval, rumors arose that there was one other Daniel Salcedo, a businessman, who dealt with million-dollar contracts, however that cash didn’t attain me instantly. I feel this contributed to judges demanding exorbitant sums. I attempted to barter extra cheap quantities, like $20,000 or $15,000, however she refused. Lastly, we agreed on $70,000,” Salcedo defined.
The $70,000 had been delivered by its operator, Andrés A., to Salazar’s home situated in La Alborada, though Salcedo couldn’t specify the precise second the transaction was made.
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