After 7:00 p.m., the hearing to formulate charges against the deputy comptroller, Pablo Celi, the former secretary of the Presidency, José Agusto Briones, and seven other detainees for alleged organized crime related to Petroecuador was installed in the National Court of Justice (CNJ). .
There are nine people who would be prosecuted in this alleged corruption scheme. The brothers Pablo and Esteban Celi, and the brothers José and Luis Agusto Briones, together with Natalia C., Elsie C., Silvia L., Ángelo R., Andrés L.
The Prosecutor’s Office asked the criminal judge, Felipe Córdova Ochoa, the preventive detention measure for all those involved, while the prosecutorial investigation is being carried out.
His arrest occurred in the 25 raids carried out by the Prosecutor’s Office and the National Police at dawn on April 13 in Quito and Guayaquil. Among the items seized was $ 93,562 in cash, found in the buildings where the search warrants legally obtained by the Prosecutor’s Office were executed.
The process stems from the case of Raúl de la Torre, a former Petroecuador official and nephew of Comptroller Pablo Celi de la Torre, who was arrested in Miami in June 2019 and, in November of that year, pleaded guilty to money laundering in USA.
Between 2018 and June 2019, Raúl de la Torre, who worked for the state oil company, “conspired with other officials of Petroecuador and the government of Ecuador and with certain people in a scheme to receive millions of dollars in bribes in exchange for using their function to allow a company to obtain and maintain contracts and contractual payments from Petroecuador ”, says the document of the case in the United States.
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