Ecuador: Prosecutor's office investigates whether three judges received money from a Chinese company in exchange for a favorable ruling

The Attorney General's Office of Ecuador is conducting a criminal investigation into whether three judges accepted financial payments from a Chinese company in exchange for a favorable ruling. The case stems from a contractual litigation that resulted in one of the largest financial penalties ever imposed on the Ecuadorian state.

Under the disputed judicial decision, the state was ordered to pay 59.3 million dollars. Authorities are now probing the circumstances surrounding the ruling to determine if the outcome was illicitly influenced by the foreign firm.