Trial Hearing in the Case COVID-19 Tests Is Not Installed Due to the Absence of Abdalá Bucaram, Who Remains in UCI, According to Relatives
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After a series of delays, the trial hearing of the case called COVID-19, in which former President Abdalá Bucaram Ortiz, his son Jacobo Bucaram Pulley, the Israeli citizen Sheinman Oren and the former agent of the Metropolitan Transit Agency (AMT) of Quito Leandro Berrones, were again not instituted.
The Criminal Court faces the possibility of once again suspending the trial hearing for organized crime against Abdalá Bucaram. The former president entered an application on Wednesday 26 August 2026 to postpone the session, arguing a surgical intervention carried out on Tuesday 25. The former president is being prosecuted for organized crime along with his
The hearing to read the sentence against Abdal Bucaram was declared failed. This after the doctor of a clinic confirmed before the Criminal Court that the former president is in the Intensive Care Unit and the Police cannot access that space. The new summons is August 31.
Court denied the delay requested by Abdalá Bucaram for the sentencing hearing in the COVID-19 evidence case.
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