Ecuador Political News

Ruling against Romero leads to former President Correa- Ecuador Times

Published

August 18, 2020

Pablo Romero, former National Intelligence Secretary , was sentenced to 9 years in prison ; But the case for which he was tried is not closed, on the contrary, it remains open and opens a path towards one direction: former President Rafael Correa.

At the discretion of jurists, it is the power of the Attorney General to follow the case , which opens crimes related to the case against Romero, who was tried for the crime of plagiarism against the political activist Fernando Balda.

This event occurred in 2012, when Balda was in Colombia, as he argued that at that time he was suffering political persecution from the government of former president Correa.

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