2024-04-17 21:44:22
The former president of the Republic gave his version this afternoon, Tuesday, March 26, 2024, before the Prosecutor’s Office
The former president of the Republic, Guillermo Lasso Mendozaappeared at the beginning of the afternoon of this, Tuesday, March 26, 2024, before the Attorney General to give their free and voluntary version in the investigation of the Metastasis case. Specifically so that the work that was carried out in the deprivation of liberty centers by the Commission for Penitentiary Dialogue and Pacification.
This, after two of his former members were linked to the process that continues against 52 people for organized crime. In the middle of the appearance, the prosecutor asked Lasso if the members of the Pacification Commission were authorized to receive deposits or transfers from any prisoner?
Guillermo Lasso responded: “not at all, decree 294 indicated the functions of the commissioners, and of course nowhere in the decree is any commissioner authorized to receive money from people deprived of liberty.”
At the beginning of his intervention, he said that with surprise he learned about this call, within the investigation, to give his version when he is absolutely unrelated to this case that the country has generated. He hopes that all those responsible are punished to the fullest extent of the law.
Through the media it was learned that, in the investigation, some people who were part of the Prison Pacification Commission are being prosecuted. He recalled that, after the subscription of Executive Decree number 294of December 16, 2021, the Commission was created to contribute to the development of strategies to reduce violence in the social rehabilitation centers and had a period of 6 months that concluded with the issuance of a non-binding report.
The entity was made up of a multidisciplinary team of national and international experts from the civil society, church, academia and public sector. The actions of the commissioners outside the scope of the decree are their entire personal responsibility.