1. Jorge Glas served as Vice President of Ecuador from 24 May 2013 to 13 December 2017.
19 Facts About Jorge Glas
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In December 2017, Jorge Glas was sentenced to six years imprisonment by a Criminal Tribunal of the National Court of Justice, for receiving over $13.5 million in bribes in the Odebrecht scandal.
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Jorge Glas has known and been friends with Rafael Correa, the former president of Ecuador, since their time as boy scouts.
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On 22 September 2008, Jorge Glas graduated in electrical and electronics engineering from the ESPOL.
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Jorge Glas's thesis was reviewed by Genove Gneco, a professor from the Dominican Republic who found suspected plagiarism in four theses by top governmental officials in his own country, including then-President Danilo Medina.
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Jorge Glas however recognized that he should have cited his sources better.
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Jorge Glas was general manager of the now-closed Solidarity Fund between 2007 and 2009.
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Jorge Glas was an amalgamation of several public companies of telecommunications and electricity generation and distribution.
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Jorge Glas commenced his term as vice president on 24 May 2013.
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On 4 August 2017, Jorge Glas was suspended from his duties as vice president by new president Lenin Moreno.
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On 15 December 2017, Jorge Glas was sentenced to six years in prison for taking $13.5 million from Brazilian conglomerate Odebrecht.
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On 2 January 2018, under Ecuador's Constitution's Article 146, as Jorge Glas was unable to exercise his office for 90 days, he was stripped of his office.
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Jorge Glas was imprisoned in Latacunga, south of Quito, in 2017.
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Glas was granted Habeas corpus on 10 April 2022, which allowed him to be released on parole for 40 days since his legal guarantees had been allegedly violated and due to the inability to provide in prison the care that he needed for a health condition, which was revoked by a court in the province of Santa Elena, with which Jorge Glas was imprisoned again.
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In November 2022, Jorge Glas was released again, but could not leave the country during the remainder of his sentences.
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In December 2023 Jorge Glas entered the Mexican embassy in Quito and asked for political asylum on the grounds he was being politically persecuted.
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On 9 April 2024, prison authorities said that Jorge Glas had been hospitalized in the Guayaquil naval hospital after not eating for 24 hours, adding that his condition was stable.
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On 9 October 2024 the US State Department banned Jorge Glas from entering the United States on charges of corruption.
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On January 5,2025, Jorge Glas was evacuated from La Roca prison in Guayaquil, after an alleged assassination attempt against him.