His family came to his defense Wednesday, calling the raid illegal and saying he needed the pistol because he is regularly threatened. He once shaved his Charlie Chaplin-like mustache on a telethon to earn money for poor children and liked to compare himself to great world leaders who had been assassinated. In one incident, officials were charged $150 for body bags that should cost $15.īucaram rose to power with the votes of Ecuador’s poor and indigenous groups and became known as “El Loco” or “The Crazy One” for his many bizarre acts. Prosecutors have opened 45 corruption cases in Ecuador related to the acquisition of medical equipment to confront the pandemic in recent weeks.
“Long live the homeland!” Bucaram shouted to local media as he was taken into custody, a blue medical mask drawn down around his chin. Images shared by prosecutors showed investigators in black protective masks searching through documents in a room with a glass chandelier. Salazar said her office estimates $12 million in overcharging. Those captured include five people tied to Quito’s public water company, the ex-director of the Teodoro Maldonado Carbo Hospital in Guayaquil, and the prefect of Guayas province, which includes the port city of 2.6 million. Prosecutors in Ecuador carried out 37 raids Wednesday in Guayaquil and the capital of Quito, detaining 17 people suspected of overcharging for supplies, influence peddling and criminal organization. Throughout Latin America, multiple officials and business leaders have been charged or forced to resign amidst reports of fraudulent purchases of ventilators, masks and other equipment aimed at helping to confront the pandemic. Regarding the situation of Israeli citizens, he mentioned that they were forced to involve his family and that was why his father agreed to talk.Bucaram was elected president of the small South American nation in 1996 and ousted by Congress less than six months later for “mental incapacity.” He was accused of corruption and nepotism during his brief time in office. He even plans to submit a petition to the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) to stop what he considers an abuse against his entire family, Case in which his friend Daniel Salcedo is prosecuted, although he denied having a business relationship with him. He said that he has no lawsuit against him and that the investigations are in the procedural stage.ĭalo Bucaram appears in the group of people investigated by the Prosecutor’s Office for the alleged crime of illicit association. “I am not a fugitive from justice, I am a political persecuted by the Ecuadorian Government as an asylum seeker in the United States of America, where I have a very solid case to demonstrate all the persecution that is being subjected not only who speaks to him but all my family on the part of political and judicial actions of the Ecuadorian Government against all those who intend to participate in the next electoral process, “said Bucaram Pulley. He commented that he does not consider himself a fugitive from justice, but rather a politically persecuted person, for which he applied for asylum in the United States, the country in which he is currently. They don’t want Abdalá Bucaram in prison, they want him dead, that’s my conclusion, ”he said.ĭalo said that he hopes that President Lenín Moreno will stop the persecution by members of his Government. “I have spoken with him, he is very worried about his life. In an interview on CNN, Bucaram Pulley, better known as Dalo, noted that his father is worried about his life. The Bucaram family is investigated for the alleged commission of various crimes.Īfter the arrest of his father Abdalá Bucaram Ortiz and the situation his family faces due to the latest events that link them to various crimes, Abdalá Bucaram Pulley declared himself politically persecuted and awaits asylum from the United States.
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