2024-04-04 03:36:35
Around four million dollars, coming from the corruption that occurred in Petroecuador during the administrations of Carlos Pareja Yannuzelli and Álex Bravo, they are frozen in Panama. He requested legal assistance for the return of that money.
Investigations determined that this amount is frozen in bank accounts domiciled in the Central American nation, along with 20 assets, such as real estate, offices and automobiles. The list of belongings was endorsed by Inmobiliar, entity in charge of asset management, which gave the Attorney General’s Office the information with the properties of the 13 people involved in the Petroecuador corruption case.
To recover the millions transferred from Ecuador to Panama and the assets acquired with illicit moneythe Attorney General’s Office asked the National Court of Justice to send certified copies with the enforceable sentences for bribery to the International Affairs Prosecutor of Panama, José Antonio Candanedo, to authorize the return.
The institution that judicially represents the State also requested the Court of Criminal Guarantees to begin the forced execution and seizure of assets of the 13 convicts, prosecuted in the Ecuadorian justice system for participating in a network in the national oil company.
Pareja Yannuzzelli, alias ‘Capaya’, and Álex Bravo were sentenced in 2017 to five years in prison for the crime of bribery. That penalty was also received by his advisors in the management of Petroecuador, Arturo Escobar and Paquita de Mora; as well as the contractors Ramiro Luque, Jaime Baquerizo, Glenda Meza, Arturo Pinzon, Humberto Guarderas and Andres Baquerizo.
As accomplices, Sonia Calero, Yolanda Pareja and Carlos Pareja Avilés were sentenced to 2 years and 6 months in prison. The amounts obtained as bribes for the awarding of contracts millionaires in the rehabilitation of the Esmeraldas Refinery were transferred to Panamanian banks through the offshore companies CAPAYA, GIRBRA AND ESCART.
The Attorney General’s Office confirmed that he will exhaust all possible instances to recover the stolen money and will continue with the processes in his capacity as judicial representative of the Ecuadorian State. ‘Capaya’ and Bravo are also serving sentences for other crimes committed during their time as public officials in the government of Rafael Correa. (01)