It was reported that a court in Ecuador has sentenced the country’s former president Rafael Correa to eight years in prison for bribery and corruption. A panel of three judges at the National Court of Ecuador convicted and jailed the 57 year old ex-president Rafael Correa in absentia. The court found him and 19 others guilty of accepting $7.5m (£6m) in bribes from private firms in exchange for state contracts. Also those convicted were banned from any political role for 25 years. Rafael Correa who denied any wrongdoing alleged that he was a victim of political persecution. Ex-president Rafael Correa led the country (Ecuador) for 10 years until 2017, when he went into exile in Belgium. Rafael Correa’s leadership was known by large-scale social welfare spending and infrastructure projects, as well as defaulting on foreign loans and tensions with the United States.
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