{"id":156996,"date":"2026-09-03T21:36:52","date_gmt":"2026-09-03T21:36:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=156996"},"modified":"2026-09-03T21:36:52","modified_gmt":"2026-09-03T21:36:52","slug":"ecuadors-ex-president-and-chinese-ambassador-seek-to-avoid-jail-over-belt-and-road-dam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=156996","title":{"rendered":"Ecuador\u2019s ex-president and Chinese ambassador seek to avoid jail over belt and road dam"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostFormer Ecuadorian president Lenin Moreno and a former Chinese ambassador to Quito asked the country\u2019s highest court on Thursday to spare them the five-year sentences handed down last week over a US$76 million bribery scheme.<br \/>\nMoreno was convicted of bribery by a three-judge panel of the National Court of Justice over contracts for Ecuador\u2019s largest hydroelectric project secured by a Chinese state contractor.<br \/>\nThe judges found unanimously that he had used his position as vice-president, held from&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/china\/article\/3366283\/ecuadors-ex-president-and-chinese-ambassador-seek-avoid-jail-over-belt-and-road-dam?utm_source=rss_feed\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"feedzy-rss-link-icon\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostFormer Ecuadorian president Lenin Moreno and a former Chinese ambassador to Quito asked the country\u2019s highest court on Thursday to spare them the five-year&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156996"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=156996"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156996\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=156996"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=156996"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=156996"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}