Salazar said in an interview with the local channel Ecuavisa that these accusations are part of a strategy to discredit the work of the Prosecutor’s Office.
According to La Posta, the Prosecutor’s Office, the Financial Analysis Unit (UAFE) and the Internal Revenue Service (SRI) have failed to take legal action against companies and people who are believed to be linked to the Albanian mafia.
The prosecutor assured that the institution she leads in no way intends to delay the investigation of the so-called Pampa case, related to the operations of the Albanian mafia in Ecuador.
She further explained that this investigation is awaiting the preliminary hearing for the trial, for the alleged money laundering.
Regarding the impeachment process against her in the National Assembly (Parliament), the prosecutor stated that there are no reason justifying her dismissal and assured that the process is politically biased.
In her words, this accusation is a “revenge from organized crime”, responding to her moves to disrupt it.
“We have demonstrated how a political party has been in cahoots with drug trafficking and organized crime,” she said without mentioning by name Revolución Ciudadana (Citizen Revolution), the organization that forwarded the case before the Parliament.
Last Monday, the Assembly reported that it will resume the impeachment against the prosecutor, after calling off the process as she claimed to be going through a high-risk pregnancy.
Salazar has come under fire for her selectivity and partiality in the cases she investigates, focusing on figures from the RC and former president Rafael Correa, who has accused her of political persecution, while other cases remain shelved.
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