Former Ecuadorian President Lenín Moreno Sentenced to 5 Years for Corruption – WTOP News
Moreno was sentenced to 5 years in prison as prosecutors said more than $1 million in bribes flowed through offshore accounts and shell companies.
- On Friday, an Ecuadorian court sentenced former President Lenin Moreno to five years in prison after finding him guilty of bribery in the Coca Codo Sinclair hydroelectric plant case. He is permanently barred from holding public office.
- Prosecutors alleged Chinese state-owned firm Sinohydro paid roughly $76.1m in bribes through fraudulent consulting contracts between 2009 and 2018, with Moreno and his relatives receiving more than $1m during his vice presidency.
- Judge Manuel Cabrera ruled Moreno's conduct constituted bribery, while his wife, daughter, and two brothers were sentenced to two and a half years in prison; former Chinese ambassador to Quito Cai Runguo received five years.
- Moreno, who served as president from 2017 to 2021, returned to Ecuador from Paraguay to face trial, consistently denying the allegations and insisting he played no role in the project's contracts.
- Investigators launched the probe in March 2023, alleging that funds moved through overseas accounts and shell companies in tax havens before reaching Moreno's family and associates.
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Former Ecuadorian President Lenin Moreno has been sentenced to five years in prison after a court found him guilty of corruption and bribery in a case linked to the award of a major public project to Chinese construction company Sinohydro. The case concerns the construction of the Coca Codo Sinclair hydroelectric plant and a corruption ring that, according to prosecutors, operated from 2009 to 2018. Moreno, who served as Ecuador's president from…
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Ecuador’s ex-president Lenin Moreno gets five-year prison term over Sinohydro dam bribery scandal involving $76 million in alleged payments.
The 73-year-old ex-principal, who is to serve his sentence under house arrest, announced that he would appeal. He was accused of having received bribes from a Chinese group, in exchange for a contract for the construction of a hydroelectric power plant, when he was vice-president of the country.
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