Correa does not appear before the National Court of Justice in Quito on Monday after having linked him to the kidnapping case of the former Balda, who has denounced him.
An Ecuadorian judge will ask Interpol for the arrest and extradition of former president Rafael Correa, after not being presented this Monday before the National Court of Justice in Quito, as a precautionary measure after being linked by the prosecutor to the case of attempted kidnapping of the former ruler. Fernando Balda
Judge Daniella Camacho accepted the request of the State's Attorney General, Paúl Pérez, and ordered her preventive detention, for investigative purposes, in addition to a request to Interpol to locate Correa, who lives in Belgium with his family since the year past, for extradition purposes.
On June 18, Camacho ordered Correa to appear this July 2 before the Secretariat of the National Court of Justice and dismissed the request of the defense to do so at the embassy of Ecuador in Belgium.
Balda, whistleblower against Correa, during the hearing.
Correa, on Monday, covered by his lawyers under diplomatic regulations, appeared before the diplomatic legation in Brussels and immediately the complainant, Balda, requested his preventive detention, also supported by the Prosecutor's Office for having disregarded an express order from the judge.
In what is his first reaction to the decision, Correa recalled on Tuesday a Twitter message of November 10, 2017 in which Balda advanced his arrest.
Correa did not appear before the National Court of Justice in Quito on Monday after having linked him to the kidnapping case of the former Balda, who has denounced him.
"Balda already announced in November that there were legal proceedings that would order me to capture Interpol, I guess or part of a plot, make your bets, in the next few hours I'll send a video through networks, until the victory always!" said the former president in a message on the same social network.
In a previous message, he had already denounced the supposed "outrage" committed by the justice system, by a "fiscal hand-picked", and with a "connection without any evidence".
"Do you know how successful this farce is going to be at the international level? Do not worry, it's all just a matter of time, we will win!" He wrote when he sensed the outcome at the Court.