The father and a partner of former Minister of Electricity Alecksey Mosquera, linked to the corruption network that the Brazilian company Odebrecht established to obtain public works in Ecuador, will go to jail, the National Court of Justice said Wednesday. a statement.
The new entrants in this case are Marco Mosquera, who will be under house arrest for being an older adult, and businessman Santiago Játiva after this week the prosecution presented documents linking them to the case. The former minister has been held since April under the charge of receiving one million dollars from Odebrecht, while an uncle of the official is also under house arrest.
All those involved in this case are being investigated for money laundering.
The scandal over Odebrecht’s corruption network also led to the resignation of Ecuador’s Comptroller General Carlos Pólit, who is in the United States.
The prosecutor’s office reviews some 30 contracts signed by that firm with the Ecuadorian State between 1980 and 2015 to verify the conditions under which they were granted. The government of former President Rafael Correa (2007-2017) promoted projects for about 1.6 billion dollars with Odebrecht.
The top executives of the company have acknowledged that they gave bribes to public officials in exchange for state works in 10 American countries and two Africans.