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Former Ecuadorian Vice President Jorge Glas Sentenced Again for Corruption and Sentenced to 13 Years in Prison.
- On June 30, 2025, Jorge Glas, Ecuador’s former vice president, was given a 13-year prison term by a Quito tribunal for his role in a corruption case.
- The sentence followed accusations that Glas misused public funds meant for reconstruction after a devastating 2016 earthquake in Manabi and Esmeraldas provinces.
- Glas was captured in April 2024 after police stormed Mexico's embassy in Quito where he had sought asylum, triggering a diplomatic crisis between Ecuador and Mexico.
- The court applied the maximum sentence and extended Glas’s incarceration beyond prior corruption convictions, with a combined fine totaling $250 million assessed to him and co-defendant Carlos Bernal.
- This ruling bars Glas from holding public office and signifies prolonged imprisonment, with his lawyers decrying political persecution and questioning the integrity of Ecuador's justice system.
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Former Ecuador vice president sentenced to prison in embezzlement case
The Tribunal of the National Court of Justice of Ecuador sentenced Jorge Glas, the former vice president, to 13 years in prison for embezzlement charges on Monday. The judges, Mercedes Caicedo, Marco Rodríguez Ruiz, and Javier de la Cadena, ruled in favor of the charges brought by the State Attorney General’s Office against Jorge Glas for his misuse of public funds intended for reconstruction after the earthquake on April 16, 2016. Carlos Bernal…
By Ana María Cañizares, CNN en Español One day after the new corruption sentence against former Ecuadorian Vice President Jorge Glas was announced, condemning him to 13 more years in prison, the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights issued a statement on the case on Tuesday, reporting that it has requested provisional measures from the Inter-American Court of Human Rights for Glas. The IACHR considers that Glas "is in a situation of extreme …
The Government of Mexico, through the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (SRE), again requested the Government of Ecuador to grant a safe conduct to the former Ecuadorian vice president, Jorge Glas, a Mexican diplomat, in response to his “delicate state of health.” This request of the Mexican Foreign Ministry occurs after a court of the National Court of Justice of Ecuador unanimously decided on Monday to sentence Glas to 13 years in prison for embezzl…
Ecuadorean justice handed down Monday a new conviction for corruption against former Vice President Jorge Glas, whose arrest in a police raid last year at the Mexican embassy led to the breakdown of relations between the two countries. Glas, vice president during the second term of the socialist Rafael Correa (2013-2017) and then at the beginning of the government of Correa’s successor, Lenin Moreno, was sentenced to 13 years in prison and disqu…
The Court of the National Court accepted the request of the State Prosecutor's Office and, unanimously, decided, on Monday, June 30, to sentence to 13 years in prison former Vice President Jorge Glas, and the former Secretary of Manabí Reconstruction, Carlos Bernal, accused of embezzlement (malversation of public funds) in the management of resources destined for the reconstruction of Manabí and Esmeraldas, after the earthquake of April 16, 2016…
After the conviction of 13 aos de crcel and disqualification of former vice president Jorge Glas, Mexico insists that he be allowed to leave the country
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