The president announced it in a message posted on his social media account, X, in which he added that he expects the politician’s handover to the Colombian government from the neighboring country and thanks that same state for taking this step for “the peace of Latin American nations.”
The president also reproduced part of a document from the Colombian consulate in Quito attesting to Glas’s acceptance as a national of Colombia.
Glas, arrested during the attack on the Mexican embassy in Quito where he was seeking asylum, is considered a symbol of judicial persecution or lawfare in Ecuador.
Earlier this year, the court ordered his arrest for alleged embezzlement in the Manabi Reconstruction case, an investigation into alleged criminal liability in contracts related to the construction of the Las Vegas park in Portoviejo and the access project to the Port of Manta.
Glas was at the Mexican embassy in Quito from December 2023 to April 5, 2024, the day uniformed officers violently entered the diplomatic mission and arrested him, despite having been granted asylum by the then-government of Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador (2018-2024).
Ecuadorian President Daniel Noboa has repeatedly refused to grant him safe conduct, despite his asylum status, as he believes he should serve a sentence for alleged crimes committed in Ecuador.
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