Ecuador: The Prosecutor’s Office searched the legal department of the Presidential Palace

In addition, employees of the Attorney General’s Office also searched the headquarters of the state oil corporation Petroecuador and the homes of senior officials of this group.

On Twitter, the Ecuadorian Public Prosecutor’s Office said that storage devices, laptops, mobile phones and documents will be seized for examination and analysis, as part of the investigation. corruption in state-owned enterprises.

Late last year, the Ecuadorian prosecutor’s office opened an investigation after La Posta newspaper published articles alleging irregularities in the appointment of positions and the allocation of resources to businesses in the electricity sector of the country. this country. One of those involved in the scandal is businessman Danilo Carrera, brother-in-law of Ecuadorian President Guillermo Lasso. Another key figure in this case is former member of the board of directors of the State-owned Enterprises Administration (EMCO) Hernan Luque. Mr. Luque was nominated for the post by President Lasso in 2021 as a representative of the government. He left Ecuador on January 9.