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Legal challenge filed against arrest order for former Ecuadorian president Bucaram

From ABC Color · () Spanish

Translated from Spanish and summarized by DistantNews. Read the original for the full story.

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Newswire From a news agency In the courts
  • María Pulley filed a habeas corpus petition challenging an arrest order issued against former Ecuadorian President Abdalá Bucaram.
  • Bucaram is hospitalized after surgery and has missed repeated hearings in a case involving alleged organized crime and the sale of COVID-19 tests and medical supplies.
  • The court ordered police to maintain permanent surveillance so he can attend the sentencing hearing after leaving the hospital.

María Pulley, the wife of former Ecuadorian President Abdalá Bucaram, has filed a habeas corpus petition against an arrest order issued so he can attend a sentencing hearing in an alleged organized crime case.

The petition seeks to prevent authorities from executing any arrest immediately after Bucaram leaves the hospital. Pulley wants a medical assessment first to determine whether he is clinically fit to travel. She also asks the court to respect his prescribed treatment, medication, movement restrictions, cardiology monitoring and recovery period, while ensuring a calm environment for his recovery.

A court ordered Bucaram’s detention last Thursday after judges failed for the sixth time to restart the hearing. The former president remains hospitalized following surgery on Aug. 25, and his lawyers say he has not recovered. The detention order is not being carried out immediately because he is in intensive care, but judges instructed police to maintain permanent surveillance so he can hear the sentence once he is discharged.

permanent surveillance

· The judgesThe court ordered police to monitor Bucaram so he can attend the sentencing hearing after leaving the hospital.

Health problems have repeatedly disrupted the proceedings. The first failed hearing occurred on Aug. 26, after lawyers and relatives said Bucaram had been admitted urgently for heart surgery. He later left the hospital, but entered another medical center on the same day a hearing was due to take place. Doctors confirmed his hospitalization to police, although officers could not see him because he remained in intensive care.

Prosecutors accuse Bucaram, his son Jacobo and two other people of working between March and August 2020 with a criminal structure that earned money by selling 21,000 COVID-19 tests and other medical supplies during the health emergency.

collaborated, between March and August 2020, with a criminal structure that obtained financial benefits from the sale of 21,000 COVID-19 tests and other medical supplies during the health emergency

· The prosecutionProsecutors describe the alleged conduct at the center of the case against Bucaram, his son and two others.
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Originally published by ABC Color in Spanish. Translated, summarized, and contextualized automatically by DistantNews, with a note on how the source frames the story. Not individually reviewed before publishing. How this works.

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