2024-09-21 12:15:33
Starting this Monday, July 15, the associate judge of the Metástasis case, Manuel Cabrera, will begin sentencing 10 of the 49 defendants of the Metastasis case.
On Friday, the associate judge Cabrera accepted the abbreviated procedure requested by three ex-police officers, two former judgesthe trusted man of drug trafficker Leandro Norero, alias Estimado, three former judicial officials, including Mayra Salazar and the controversial Daniel Salcedo.
Thus, the trial for them will end sooner, because to access the abbreviated procedure They expressly accept the accusations and will therefore receive reduced sentences.
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This Monday, from 2:00 p.m., the first to be judged will be Police Corporal Gabriel Genaro Garcia, alias Doble Rueda, who, according to the Prosecutor’s Office, alerted Los Choneros about anti-drug operations. He was also the one who prevented the police from accessing Norero’s phones.
Former police colonel, Neycer Mazónwill appear on Tuesday at 10:00 to admit that as former police chief in Samborondón, he leaked details of the operations against Norero and recruited other officers for the corruption network in exchange for money.
The hearing against him will be on Wednesday at 10:00. Helive Anguloalias Estimado, identified as the administrator of Norero’s assets and trusted man and who explained how the police and judicial corruption network operated.
The case against Mayra Salazar and Daniel Salcedo is in the queue
The hearings will then be set against the other defendants who accepted the abbreviated procedure, including the Former Judge Angel Lindaoaccused of irregularly returning properties to Norero, he also Former Judge Emerson Curipallo for having released alias Cuyuyuy and alias Madrid, two of Norero’s hitmen, and who also released former vice president Jorge Glas.
Finally, Deputy Judge Cabrera will judge Mayra Salazar, a former official of the Guayas Court, and Daniel Salcedo, for their ties to the drug trafficker.
39 people will be prosecuted in the Metastasis case
In the same case, the Prosecutor’s Office issued an abstention ruling in favor of the prison employees. Daniel Mendoza and Ximena Benitez and for Juan Pablo Jaramillodue to the lack of certain evidence of his connection to the judicial and police corruption network.
With the sentencing of the 10 defendants in the abbreviated procedure, the Metastasis case will be left with 39 defendants, including the former legislator Ronny Aleaga and Xavier Jordanboth fugitives from justice.