Ecuador to Charge Correa's Former VP in Candidate's Murder
Glas, who is already in a maximum-security prison following a corruption conviction, has repeatedly insisted he's innocent. His lawyer, Sonia Vera, said on X that the information about the charges is correct but called the move ' political persecution. '
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