QUITO, Sept. 28 (Xinhua) -- Ecuador's prosecutor-general filed charges Thursday against 18 people for criminal association, linked to the corruption ring run by Brazilian construction company Odebrecht.
The charges were presented to Ecuador's highest court, the National Justice Court.
The list of those charges include Jorge Glas, the former vice-president, Glas' uncle, Ricardo Rivera, and the former comptroller-general, Carlos Polit, who is currently on the run from investigators.
Jose Conceicao Santos, the former Odebrecht director in Ecuador, confessed to investigators on Wednesday that his firm paid 32.1 million U.S. dollars in bribes in order to win the contracts for five infrastructure contracts.
Santos has also turned over to the prosecutor-general various recordings and videos of conversations he had with Polit and Rivera.
On August 29, the Ecuadorian court blocked Glas from leaving the country after linking him to the case.
Glas also appeared in court on Wednesday to provide his testimony.
Following information published by the U.S. Department of Justice last December, the full scale of Odebrecht's corruption across Latin America was laid bare.
The documents alleged that Odebrecht paid a total of 33.5 million U.S. dollars in bribes in Ecuador from 2007 to 2016.
