The Government of Ecuador will file an appeal to prevent the release of Jorge Glas

MADRID, 9 Ago. (EUROPA PRESS) -

The Government of Ecuador announced this Monday that it will file "all the corresponding legal resources" to prevent the 'habeas corpus' granted by a court to former Ecuadorian Vice President Jorge Glas from entering into force.

"My government will not allow corruption in Ecuador. The country needs to recover Justice, a fundamental pillar of coexistence in democracy," Ecuadorian President Guillermo Lasso said in a statement shared on Twitter.

The president has supported his position by ensuring that neither the State Attorney's Office nor the National Service for Comprehensive Care for Adults Deprived of Liberty and Adolescent Offenders (SNAI) were summoned to the hearing that freed Glas for various corruption crimes.

"The institutions of the Ecuadorian State will file the corresponding legal resources and will not make any decision to release any citizen who violates the legal system and contributes to the judicial anarchy to which some judges are trying to lead us," Lasso assured in the letter.

On August 5, the Judicial Court of Penitentiary Guarantees of the city of Portoviejo issued a resolution granting the former vice president 'habeas corpus'.

The magistrate in charge of the case, Banny Molina, alleged that Glas's health and physical integrity rights had been violated "because his health problems had been justified and that they had not been treated in a specialized and comprehensive manner," for which he ordered his immediate release.

Previously, in April, a Manglaralto judge granted a 'habeas corpus' to the former vice president, but it was declared null by a court of the Santa Elena Court, reported 'El Universo'.

Glas has two firm sentences for crimes related to illicit association in a corruption scheme and for bribery in the Bribery case. All this during his period in the Executive of Rafael Correa.