Ecuador Court Sentences Ex-President Bucaram In Corruption Case
Prosecutors said the pair sold at least 21,000 COVID-19 tests and other medical supplies without invoices or taxes.
- On Wednesday, former Ecuador President Abdalá Bucaram was sentenced to nine years and four months in prison for organized crime, hearing the verdict remotely from a guarded clinic in Guayaquil.
- Prosecutors charged Bucaram and his son, Jacob Bucaram, for illegally selling at least 21,000 COVID-19 tests; according to the public prosecutor, supplies were sold "without invoices and without paying taxes to the state."
- The trial lasted six years following an appeal by the public prosecutor; officials stated COVID-19 tests were illegally transferred to Bucaram's residence, guarded by Quito traffic agents.
- Bucaram posted a message requesting discharge from the clinic "despite being at risk of sudden death," claiming he will "be able to defend myself" against the legal process.
- The former leader was removed from office in 1997 after six months in power, then lived in exile in Panama for nearly two decades before returning to Ecuador in 2017.
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The former president of Ecuador Abdalá Bucaram was sentenced to nine years and four months in prison for criminals, at the end of a trial lasting over five years. (ANSA)
The trial for the irregular sale of at least 21,000 tests to diagnose covid-19 lasted six years.
The former governor and his son were sentenced to nine years in prison for the crime of organized crime
The sentence is given three decades after Ecuador has ruled
The former president heard the resolution via telematics from a clinic in Guayaquil (southwest), where he remained under medical care for heart problems. The place was guarded by the police. The trial for the irregular sale of at least 21,000 tests to diagnose covid-19 lasted six years. The direct perpetrators identified as Leandro B. and Sheinman O. were sentenced to 13 years and 4 months as direct perpetrators of the crime, according to the Pu…
Justice considers him a collaborator in a plot that commercialized 21,000 covid-19 tests and other sanitary materials.
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