2024-08-29 11:58:33
Jose Carlos Tuarezknown as Father Tuárez for his past in the Catholic Church, and who was president of the Council for Citizen Participation and Social Control (Cpccs), will remain in prisonas the National Court of Justice rejected this Monday, July 22, an appeal cassation that had been raised.
The cassation It is an extraordinary resource that aims to annul a court ruling “which contains an incorrect interpretation or application of the law.” With the cassation, Tuárez He was trying to get out of Quito Prison 4the penitentiary center where he is being held.
The decision to deny his request was made by the Court made up of the judges of Ivan Saquicela (as speaker), Julio Inga, and Manuel Cabrera.
Tuárez was arrested in November 2019 for being part of a network that offered jobs in the Civil Aviation Authority, Customs and public hospitals in exchange for large sums of money and even precious stones.
In August 2020, a Court of Guayas sentenced him to five years in prison for the crime of illicit association. In January 2021, his sentence was ratified. And with the setback in the cassation appeal, the conviction is now final.