The national court of Ecuador gave the former vice-president of the country Jorge Glas eight years in prison on corruption charges. This is reported by the Istoé tabloid with reference to local authorities.
The case concerned fraud with contracts for the extraction of petroleum products. On charges of embezzlement, together with Glas, two of his ministers, Wilson Pastor and Carlos Rareia Iannuzzelli, received an eight-year term. Four more participants in the corruption scheme received the same punishment, six more suspects in this case were acquitted.
This is the third conviction received by Glas. In 2017, shortly after he was removed from office by President Lenin Moreno, he was sentenced to six years in prison in a corruption case involving construction firms. This corruption scandal, known as the “Odebrecht case”, has become one of the largest in Latin America. Glas did not admit his guilt. In September 2020, he was given eight more years in prison on a bribery case.
