رئیس جمهور سابق اکوادور و سفیر چین به دنبال اجتناب از زندان بر سر کمربند و سد جاده هستند

Ecuador’s ex-president and Chinese ambassador seek to avoid jail over belt and road dam

Former Ecuadorian president Lenin Moreno and a former Chinese ambassador to Quito asked the country’s highest court on Thursday to spare them the five-year sentences handed down last week over a US$76 million bribery scheme. Moreno was convicted of bribery by a three-judge panel of the National Court of Justice over contracts for Ecuador’s largest hydroelectric project secured by a Chinese state contractor. The…