The former Ecuadorian vice president served four and a half years in prison.
A judge ruled Saturday that he should be released following a habeas corpus petition, a Santa Elena province court said in a statement.
“Three sentences weigh on the aforementioned citizen, two of them already executed for the crimes of illicit association and bribery, in addition to a process for embezzlement, whose appeal is pending resolution,” the Prosecutor’s Office said in a statement.
Videos on social networks showed Jorge Glas greeting hundreds of supporters upon leaving prison, while his former boss, the former president Rafael Correasupported his release in a message on Twitter.
“Jorge has regained his freedom as a result of a habeas corpus, which determines that his guarantees have been violated,” legislator and Glas ally, Fausto Jarrín, told reporters as he left the Cotopaxi prison.
“In addition to the situation of insecurity that exists in prisons, Jorge’s health condition means that these centers are absolutely prevented from giving him the care he requires,” Jarrín explained.
Jorge Glas will not be able to leave Ecuador and must appear before the authorities once a month, explained Jarrín.
Correa himself – who has lived in Belgium since leaving office in 2017 – was sentenced to eight years in prison on charges of financing his political movement with fees from contractors.
Correa has denied the accusations and maintains that the investigations against him are political persecution.
Twenty inmates were killed in a Cuenca prison earlier this month, the latest deadly incident in the country’s prisons, where violence killed 316 people last year.
Source: Ambito
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