Close this content

Ecuador Court Rules Mexican Embassy Arrest Legal, Comercio Says

Fabiola Zerpa

8 June 2024 at 6:08 pm·1-min read

(Bloomberg) -- Ecuador’s high court ruled that former Vice President Jorge Glas’s arrest in Mexico’s embassy in Quito was legal, in a case that has strained relations between the two countries.

Most Read from Bloomberg

The high court overturned a lower-court ruling late Friday, declaring the arrest “legal, legitimate and not arbitrary,” El Comercio reported. The court previously ruled out an appeal by Glas to be freed from prison immediately.

Glas was forcibly removed by security officials from the Mexican Embassy on April 5, hours after President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador’s government granted him asylum. He fled to the embassy in December after Ecuadorian prosecutors implicated him in an alleged bribery case. Glas has said he’s a victim of political persecution.

The raid set off a diplomatic dispute between Ecuador and Mexico and drew condemnation from the US and several Latin American neighbors.

Glas is being held at the high-security Roca penitentiary in Guayaquil.

Most Read from Bloomberg Businessweek

©2024 Bloomberg L.P.

Echo
Basildon dad left with 'serious concussion' as kickabout turns into 'horrific scenes'
The victim, who asked to remain anonymous, told the Echo the friendly kickabout while on holiday in Hopton, near Great Yarmouth, turned into “horrific scenes”
The Telegraph
Britain’s richest family spent more on pet dog than on servants, Swiss court hears
Britain’s richest family spent more money on their pet dog than they did on one of their servants, a Swiss court has heard.
Manchester Evening News
Man's trip to the chippy ends with him in jail for decades
‘You have contributed to the degradation and human misery that drugs cause to those who take them’
Manchester Evening News
Intruder 'will be covered in bruises' after he's caught in family garden at 4am
Kellie Evans had been in bed sleeping when her phone alerted her to the motion outside in the early hours of Sunday morning
Manchester Evening News
Prison worker mums who had secret convict boyfriends caught out after going to jail showers
Amy Portwood has been jailed
Manchester Evening News
Bid to close Traveller site where 'guns have been hidden in toilet blocks'
'We have now reached a point where it is no longer possible to safely maintain and run this site'
Oxford Mail
Man accused of raping his friend after 'getting drunk together'
A rape trial has started at Oxford Crown Court where a man is accused of assaulting his friend after drinking alone together in Chipping Norton.
CNN
The British Army trains in Kenya. Many women say soldiers raped them and abandoned children they fathered
Seventeen-year-old Marian Pannalossy cuts a striking figure wherever she goes in Archer’s Post, a small town 200 miles north of Nairobi. She lives alone and is light-skinned in a place where mixed-race people are a rarity and therefore ostracized.
HuffPost
CNN Data Reporter 'Speechless' By New Donald Trump-Joe Biden Poll: 'Holy Cow, Folks!'
Harry Enten said it could point to "a historic moment" in American politics.
Manchester Evening News
Nothing could have prepared police officers for what happened after they stopped a moped
Three police officers have been commended for their bravery after being launched at with a knife
Manchester Evening News
Fraudster who sold illegal boxes showing Sky and BT Sport jailed after fleeing to Cyprus
Michael Hornung was jailed in 2022 but fled overseas to avoid justice
CNN
Steve Bannon won’t be spending his prison term in a ‘Club Fed’ as he had hoped, sources say
When former Donald Trump adviser Steve Bannon goes to prison, he won’t be serving time at what’s known as a “Club Fed,” the most comfortable type of facility in the federal system, as he had wanted, according to people familiar with the arrangements.
The Argus
Teenagers 'assaulted and racially abused' group in town centre brawl
A group of teenagers allegedly attacked and racially abused another group of people in a town centre brawl.
The Telegraph
Tony Blair’s bizarre statement on trans rights sums up the madness of our times
Let’s try doing a little thought experiment. Imagine that, 20 years ago, you bumped your head and slipped into a coma – and have only now, in June 2024, regained consciousness. Naturally, you’re eager to check the news and find out what’s going on in the world. So, after a member of your family has lent you his or her iPad – and explained to you what it is and how to use it – you rush to visit The Telegraph website. And, at the top of the homepage, the very first headline you see reads as follow
Bradford Telegraph and Argus
Man jailed for 'appalling and depraved' sexual assault of teenage girl
A Bradford man has been jailed for seven and a half years for sexually assaulting a teenage girl.
The Telegraph
China is almost ready for its war with the West
While Russian forces continued their thrust towards Kharkiv over the weekend, world leaders descended on the Swiss resort of Bürgenstock in attempts to work out what a peace deal should look like. Vladimir Putin, predictably, had no interest in attending, but the absence of another world leader was more significant. Even as the US gears up to pivot its military attention to the Indo-Pacific to confront an increasingly assertive China, Xi Jinping chose not to attend.
The Telegraph
Angela Rayner is a threat to European security
It has become trite to say that the world is now more dangerous than it has been since the end of the Cold War – or perhaps even the end of the Second World War. Trite but true.
The Telegraph
Putin sacks four deputy defence ministers and appoints relative
Vladimir Putin has sacked four deputy defence ministers and appointed one of his relatives to the role as he carries out a sweeping purge of officials in charge during the botched invasion of Ukraine.
The Telegraph
Cameron, not Farage, destroyed the Conservatives
David Cameron is back from outer space to tell us Nigel Farage wants to destroy the Conservative Party, that he’s playing “dog-whistle” politics and, we can infer, the Tories ought to run a mile from him. Thus the battle lines of the next leadership contest are drawn. Early advantage goes to elites who will say the party wandered too far to the Right – a view endorsed by a billion deadly dull podcasts made by people who think the Today programme is insufficiently subjective.
CNN
Killed by a scam: A father took his life after losing his savings to international criminal gangs. He’s not the only one
Dennis was one of countless victims of a massive global criminal operation predominantly run by predominantly Chinese gangs who have built a multibillion-dollar scam industry in Southeast Asia.