Ecuador judge orders pre-trial detention for officials in oil graft case

Ecuador judge orders pre-trial detention for officials in oil graft case
An Ecuadorean judge ordered that the country's current comptroller and former energy minister be placed under pre-trial detention on charges of organized crime related to state oil company Petroecuador, prosecutors said on Wednesday.Reuters | Quito | Updated: 14-04-2021 21:13 IST | Created: 14-04-2021 21:13 IST
An Ecuadorean judge ordered that the country's current comptroller and former energy minister be placed under pre-trial detention on charges of organized crime related to state oil company Petroecuador, prosecutors said on Wednesday. Prosecutors on Tuesday alleged that Comptroller Pablo Celi and former energy minister Jose Agusto Briones, who had also served as secretary to President Lenin Moreno, had abused their powers to orchestrate bribe payments related to Petroecuador contracts awarded between 2017 and 2020.

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