Classics Ecuador's Ex-Vice President Jorge Glass FREDIED ​​

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© Provided by New Zürcher Zeitung Germany The former Ecuadorian Vice President Jorge Glas is reflected in the judgment for bribery by Brazilian construction company Odebrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrlecht in Quito on 13 December 2017. Daniel Tapia / Reuters

The former Ecuadorian Vice President Jorge Glas condemned for corruption has been released from custody prematurely. The 52-year-old lost a prison in the city of Latacunga after about four and a half years of imprisonment and showed himself from dozens cheerful supporters with an Ecuadorian flag in the hand, as seen in local media. On Saturday, a judge had on request of glass, after which his physical and spiritual integrity was at risk, the release was arranged.

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Glass' lawyer Édison Laiza said in front of journalists, in addition to his health problems, the application had also called for the fact that glass had been relocated to an unknown place several times due to bloody uprisings in prison. In the often crowded and bands-controlled detention centers of the South American country, it always comes to violence with many dead.

glass was in the second term of office of the President Rafael Correa (2013-2017) and at the beginning of the term of office of its successor Lenín Moreno (2017-2021) Vice President of Ecuador. At the end of 2017, he was found guilty, adopted bribery and forgive public contracts for the construction of oil infrastructure projects to the Brazilian corporate Odebrrrrrrrrried. It was sentenced to a total of eight years in the case and in two other corruption procedures. The Presidential Office of the current officer Guillermo Lasso announced an appeal against glass' to insert release.