Ecuador's Attorney General's Office said on Friday that through a local court it had frozen the bank accounts of many business leaders and former government officials, including former President Rafael Correa and members of his administration, who were sentenced last year for breaking campaign finance laws.
Correa and 19 others, including his former vice president who is in prison for another corruption case, were accused of accepting $7.5 million in bribes in exchange for public contracts to finance his party's electoral campaigns between 2012 and 2016.
In addition to prison time, those sentenced were ordered to pay a total of $14.7 million in reparations to the government, with different amounts according to each individual's sentence. In a statement the entity also said that after the account seizures, it would "request the same court order the seizure of property registered in the name of the convicted persons."
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