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Ecuador prosecutors request house arrest for ex-president
QUITO: Ecuador's prosecutor's office on Friday requested former president Lenin Moreno be placed under house arrest for allegedly receiving bribes from a Chinese firm in exchange for a contract to build the country's largest hydroelectric dam.Moreno, who was president from 2017 to 2021, and 36 others are suspected of receiving about $76 million in bribes, “the highest amount prosecuted for acts of corruption” in Ecuador, according to the prosecutor’s office.The alleged corruption network operated from 2009 to 2018 around the construction of the Coco Codo Sinclair hydroelectric plant, a $2.3 million project granted to the Chinese company Sinohydro.Ecuador’s Attorney General Diana Salazar requ

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