Ecuador

Jorge Glas was Vice President of Ecuador between 2013 and 2017. He is the highest-ranking official convicted over the Odebrecht case in his country. He holds two final convictions and a third, of 13 years, pending appeal. However, his case file became an international affair on the night of 5 April 2024. Hours after Mexico … Read more about Jorge Glas: the prisoner who pitted Ecuador against Mexico and Colombia, from the raided embassy to the Inter-American Court

Rafael Correa governed Ecuador between 2007 and 2017 and has lived in Belgium since leaving power. He is the only former president in the region with a final corruption conviction that no State has managed to enforce. The National Court of Justice sentenced him in absentia to eight years for bribery in April 2020. Belgium, … Read more about Rafael Correa: the final sentence Ecuador cannot enforce, the trial suspended over a kidnapping and life in Belgium

Carlos Pólit was Ecuador’s Comptroller General between 2007 and 2017. He is the Ecuadorian with the harshest sentence in the Odebrecht case, but his own country did not hand it down. A federal court in Miami sentenced him to ten years in prison in October 2024. Ecuador had convicted him earlier, in 2018 and in … Read more about Carlos Pólit: the comptroller a US jury convicted and whom Ecuador has been unable to extradite or collect from in eight years