Foreign Minister Juan Carlos Holguín asked the prosecution to take his voluntary version, after Rubén Cherres mentioned it in an audio. The former anti-corruption secretary speaks of discomfort with his report.

The Juan Carlos Holguín, Minister of Foreign Affairs referred to the alleged acts of Corruption in public enterprises, which investigates pursuitand how the Executive was able to foresee them, through Anti-Corruption Secretariatuntil Monday led by Luis Verdesoto.

Therefore, Holguín considers that the alerts could have been detected and that timely decisions were taken.

“I think he report that he arrived on Monday, he could have featured a few days ago and may have headed the highest authority in the state, that the President of the Republicmake the right decisions at the right time,” he told Ecuavisa.

On the audio by Ruben Cherreswhere he mentions his namethe Minister of Foreign Affairs reiterated that he did not know him, and that for an exercise in transparency he had asked the Public Prosecutor’s Office to take his free and voluntary version.

“Let’s hope that the truth will be reached, that there is no impunity and that the former official Hernán Luque will be able to pay until the last consequences in front of justice”, he reiterated.

The Minister of Foreign Affairs recalled that Ecuador is part of a group, with Canada and the Netherlands, to fight against corruption and that it will continue in this way.

Verdesoto: “There was unease with what he was going to say”

Three days after his to go out of the Anti-Corruption SecretariatLuis Verdesoto spoke about the reactions to his report, in which he details seven hypotheses of corruption in four public companies: Flopec, Celec, CNEL and Petroecuador. And how did you quit?

“The Sunday I sent my report via Quipux and my management report on what I had been working on until the end of December. We are at the press conference; However, the next day I had a breakfast which was suspended speak Secom“He explained on Teleamazonas.

He said after that he took two decisions: convene at a press conference, which ultimately did not take place; Yes submit your resignation.

“The meeting with the president (Guillermo Lasso) lasted three hours, but I wrote my resignation. It was obvious that if this agreed press conference had been suspended, there was unease with what he was going to saysince the outline of the report was known,” he said.

According to Verdesoto, the first president he resigned three times.

“The president said a sentence to me, returning my resignation to me three times, and three times I insisted on it. He took a sentence that I heard him repeat very loudly: “When the truth is clear, we must show it to everyone,'” he insisted.

He also argued that Lasso asked him for eight days before studying the La Posta affair and the report was ready at 08:00 on Monday 23, for present it to the mediaand to register in the directories of public companies.

“I sent the report to his assistant and a private conversation we have with him. The president asked me to think about what it meant to release this report to the public and make it badly used by the media,” he said.

The former manager believes that the the most immediate advice from the presidency They suggested suspending the distribution of the content of the report.

Specifically, the Secretary of Public Administration, Ivan Correa, rejected that the report exposes “generic speculations, wrongly called hypotheses”. And that it has not defined public policies to define and combat corruption.

“Who in his right mind can think that in five days there could be anything other than a hypothesis. What I promised the President was to develop a roadmap for the government, and that’s in the report,” Verdesoto noted.

He said that in the eight months of operation, the Anti-Corruption Secretariat has received 30 contractual complaintswhich are the subject of legal proceedings.