US EditionBribery Charges Thrust Ecuadorean Ex-President Moreno Into Trial
Prosecutors allege Sinohydro paid $76 million in bribes tied to a hydroelectric project, implicating Moreno, his family, and associates in corruption charges.
- On Monday, an Ecuadorean judge ordered former President Lenin Moreno to stand trial, with Judge Olavo Hernandez stating, `This judge resolves to bring citizen Lenin Moreno to trial as the direct perpetrator of the crime of bribery.`
- According to the prosecutor's office, the case first filed in March 2023 links Sinohydro to payments for the Coca Codo Sinclair project, with prosecutors saying roughly $76 million in bribes were paid.
- The Coca Codo Sinclair plant shows ongoing technical issues since 2016, while Lenin Moreno, former president, denied wrongdoing last week saying he presented evidence and was not shown to have received payments.
- He now resides in Paraguay, which prosecutors say will complicate proceedings, and he had been required to appear periodically before Ecuador's National Court of Justice in Quito during the investigation.
- Politically, Lenin Moreno, former vice president and president , faces a case that supporters oppose, calling the prosecution an injustice.
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Ecuadorian judge Olavo Hernandez ruled today that former President Lenin Moreno, who is currently in Paraguay, must appear in court on charges of alleged bribery related to the construction of the country's largest hydroelectric power plant.
Ecuador’s Former President Lenin Moreno Will Be Tried for Bribery on a Case of Infrastructure Bribes
The former president of Ecuador, Lenin Moreno, will have to appear before the National Court of Justice to answer for a crime of bribery over a network of bribes, in which a Chinese company is involved, in the midst of the construction of the largest hydroelectric plant in the country. Judge Olavo Hernández has called to trial the former president as a direct perpetrator of the crime of bribery in relation to the alleged payment of bribes for 65…
The case is linked to the alleged payment of bribes of more than $76 million during the concession and construction of the Coca Codo Sinclair hydroelectric power plant by the Chinese company Sinohydro
A judge of the National Court of Justice reinstated the pre-trial hearing against the former Ecuadorian president because there is evidence of his involvement in a bribery network linked to a hydroelectric megaproject in the Andean country.
QUITO (AP) — Ecuador's justice system ruled Tuesday to bring former President Lenín Moreno to trial for allegedly receiving bribes from the Chinese company Sinohydro for the construction of one of the country's largest hydroelectric plants. The National Court of Justice determined there is sufficient evidence that Moreno — who governed from 2017 to 2021 — was directly responsible for the crime of bribery while serving as vice president during th…
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