The former president of the Judicial Council, Wilman Teránasked the drug trafficker for two million dollars Leandro Noreroin 2020, when he was a judge of the Family Chamber of the National Court of Justice, to free Norero’s brother through habeas corpusas revealed Alex Palaciosformer advisor to Terán in the National Court of Justice and the Judicial Council.
Palacios, who has asked to be recognized as a “protected witness”gave his anticipated testimony in the Metastasis Case on the morning of this Thursday, May 2, 2024. He said that He met Wilman Terán, and made a good friendship with him in 2018. Now both are part of a group of 52 prosecuted for the crime of organized crime.
In his testimony, Palacios said that in 2020 he participated in co-sponsoring causes with Christian Romerolawyer for Norero (and later also for the former vice president Jorge Glas) and witnessed that Romero and an associate of his, Michael H., were doing “approach work” with judges of the National Court of Justice.
Palacios said that in August 2020 he was contacted by Hélive Angulo, alias Estimado, who was in charge of Leandro Norero’s legal cases, and told him that “they had to act” in a habeas corpus that reached the Family Court of the National Court. . The Court was presided over by Judge David Jacho, and Wilman Terán was one of the members.
“In a conversation in the bathroom on the 6th floor, Wilman Terán asked that I request two million dollars for the processing of the case. Hélive Angulo said that he is going to pass that information to Leandro Norero”Palacios said in his advance testimony.
Very expensive
When Norero was informed, he responded that the asking price was too high. But also, Judge David Jacho, who was the speaker, refused to receive money from drug traffickersso the transaction did not materialize.
However, shortly after, when the ruling against habeas corpus for the brother of Leandro Norero, sent ten thousand dollars in cash to Wilman Terán to delay the publication of the ruling. Palacios says that he himself traveled at night to the Calderón sector, north of Quito, to receive a manila envelope with five bundles of two thousand dollars each, which according to him he delivered to Terán in the same National Court.
Wilman Terán, according to Álex Palacios, after receiving the money “went on a trip, left the city.”
Palacios also told of a second habeas corpus presented, however, by Leandro Norero’s sister, for which US$450,000 was offered to Judge Iván Larco. The negotiation also took place in the bathroom on the sixth floor of the National Court. The issue did not materialize because in the end the judges who made up that Court did not agree.
At the end of his anticipated testimony, Álex Palacios said that when he entered Prison 4, in the north of Quito, Wilman Terán threatened to kill him if he spoke anything about what he knew. At the beginning of the tax investigation, in mid-December 2023, both were sent to Prison 4, but shortly after they were separated, sending Palacios to the Cotopaxi CPL. Terán has been in the La Roca maximum security prison since March 30, 2024.
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