Ecuador’s Prosecutor’s Office Calls for Six Years and Six Months in Prison for Former President Lenin Moreno · Global Voices
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The case revolves around a scheme of bribes by Chinese state Sinohydro for the construction of the largest power plant...
State Attorney General Carlos Alarcón asked on Wednesday for a six-year six-month prison sentence for former President Lenin Moreno (2017-2021) and 19 other people for the crime of bribery, for allegedly having received bribes from the Chinese state company Sinohydro, when he was vice president of Rafael Correa.
The Attorney General accuses Moreno for the crime of bribery, allegedly receiving bribes from Chinese state Sinohydro for the construction of the largest hydroelectric power plant in the country
Ecuadorean Prosecutor's Office requested on Wednesday six and a half years in prison for former President Lenin Moreno who was tried for allegedly receiving bribes from a Chinese company that built one of the largest hydroelectric power plants in the country.
On Wednesday, July 8, the Attorney General's Office concluded its closing arguments in the Sinohydro trial and upheld the charge of bribery against former President Lenin Moreno, businessman Conto Patiño and the rest of the defendants, although it requested the Court of Juzgation to exclude one of the accused as an accomplice from the proceedings.
The Office of the Public Prosecutor of Ecuador has requested six years and six months in prison for the former president of that country, Lenin Moreno, for a plot of bribes, in which he would have received an apartment in La Cala de La Vila Joiosa. Moreno, who presided over the Ecuadorian government between 2017 and 2021, is accused of bribery. Carlos Alarcón, the prosecutor of the case, maintains that the ex-mandator received bribes from the Ch…
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