The arrest of former Vice President Jorge Glas at the Mexican embassy in Quito was legal even though the case strained relations between the two countries, Ecuador’s Superior Court ruled on June 9, BNN reported.
The High Court overturned the lower court’s decision and declared the detention legal. Previously, the court rejected Glas’ appeal for his immediate release from prison.
Glas was forcibly removed from the Mexican embassy by security officials on April 5, hours after President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s government granted him asylum. He fled to the embassy in December after Ecuadorian prosecutors charged him in an alleged bribery case. Glas said he was a victim of political persecution.
The raid sparked a diplomatic dispute between Ecuador and Mexico and drew condemnation from the United States and some Latin American neighbors.
Glas is being held in a maximum security prison in Guayaquil.
Source: Rossa Primavera
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