Tag: Jorge Glass

• Wednesday, February 12th 2020 - 08:36 UTC

  Ex Ecuadorean president and several ministers on trial for accepting millions of dollars in bribes

  

  Former President Rafael Correa went on trial before Ecuador’s highest court starting Monday on charges of campaign finance fraud and accepting millions of dollars in bribes.

• Wednesday, December 5th 2018 - 09:24 UTC

  Ecuadorean vice president resigns following allegations of illegal funding

  

  Ecuador's Vice President Maria Vicuna announced her resignation on Tuesday, one day after President Lenin Moreno relieved her of duties amid an investigation into payments she received as a legislator years ago.

• Sunday, January 7th 2018 - 07:45 UTC

  Ecuador names new vice president; Correa begins campaign against referendum to limit re-election

  

  Ecuador has chosen a new vice president to replace Jorge Glas, who was sentenced to six years in jail for his role in a bribery scheme involving Odebrecht, the Brazilian company at the center of Latin America’s biggest corruption scandal. Lawmakers selected Maria Alejandra Vicuña in a vote on Saturday.

• Saturday, December 23rd 2017 - 09:13 UTC

  Ecuador constitutional court allows process to dismiss imprisoned ex vice-president

  

  Ecuador's Constitutional Court gave lawmakers authority to start proceedings aimed at dismissing Vice President Jorge Glas -- in prison for graft -- from office. The court's judges gave unanimous backing to the National Assembly to go ahead with the procedure.

• Thursday, November 2nd 2017 - 08:07 UTC

  Ruling party schism in Ecuador, but president Moreno support climbs to 77%

  

  Ecuador's ruling Country Alliance party, founded by former president Rafael Correa over a decade ago, has removed President Lenin Moreno as its head, citing “repeated failures” in leadership, as a schism between the former allies deepens.

• Friday, August 4th 2017 - 07:26 UTC

  Ecuadorean vice president stripped of his authority over corruption allegations

  

  Ecuadorean President Lenin Moreno stripped his vice president of his authority Thursday over corruption allegations that emerged amid a battle for power within their ruling leftist coalition. In a signed decree, Moreno said he was withdrawing all the tasks that had been assigned to Vice President Jorge Glas since both took office in May, which included overseeing a production council and earthquake reconstruction.

• Monday, April 18th 2016 - 08:21 UTC

  Ecuador quake primary toll: 262 killed and over 2.500 injured, but climbing

  

  Aid began to flow in Sunday to areas devastated by Ecuador's strongest earthquake in decades and the death toll continued to rise as people left homeless hunkered down for another night outside in the dark.