Pentax Medical Company Agrees to Pay $43 Million to Resolve Criminal Investigation Concerning Misbranded Endoscopes
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‘Everything is bulls***’: Ecuador pins 8-year corruption sentence on Correa as dead bodies line the streets amid Covid-19 outbreak
Former Ecuadorian president Rafael Correa has been convicted in absentia of bribery and sentenced to eight years in prison while the country languishes in a coronavirus disaster that his successor’s austerity policies exacerbated.
Correa and his vice president, Jorge Glas, were given eight-year sentences for corruption and bribery and barred from politics for 25 years on Tuesday in the culmination of what Correa and his supporters have long framed as a politically-motivated setup.
The leftist former leader, who decamped for Belgium in 2017 after realizing his hand-picked successor, current president Lenin Moreno, was not the devout Democratic Socialist he had played on the campaign trail, expressed worry for his colleagues but otherwise seemed unconcerned. “This is what they were looking for: managing justice to achieve what they could never do at the ballot box,” Correa tweeted following the decision. “Surely we win internationally, because everything is bulls***, but it takes years.”
It depends on your vote that this nightmare ends.
Moreno, elected with a mandate to carry on Correa’s leftist “Citizens’ Revolution,” reneged on his campaign promises almost immediately and began making nice with the US and the International Monetary Fund, reversing his predecessor’s hard-won gains and setting the stage for the nation’s current health crisis.
His government has been trying to pin charges on Correa for years, ordering him in 2018 to return to Ecuador to stand trial for the 2012 botched kidnapping of an opposition lawmaker – a request Interpol vetoed as “obviously a political matter.” When massive protests broke out in October across the country against a round of punishing austerity measures, Moreno accused the expat ex-president of colluding with Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro to overthrow his government – a notion Correa found laughable.
“They say I am so powerful that with an iPhone from Brussels I could lead the protests,” he told Reuters at the time.
The current case of “aggravated passive bribery” centers on a $7 million corruption scheme in which Correa’s political party allegedly took payments from corporations in exchange for bestowing generous government contracts. Of the 20 individuals accused in the case, 18 were found guilty.
https://www.rt.com/news/485231-correa-convicted-political-sentencing/
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270 Federal Inmates Infected With COVID-19 As US Prison Bureau Buys Massive Stockpile Of Trump's Favorite Drug: Live Updates
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Canadian Rangers Deploying to Quebec to Assist With COVID-19 Containment
More than a dozen patrols from the Canadian Rangers are being deployed to the northern part of the province of Quebec to assist with government efforts to contain the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, the Department of National Defence said in a statement.
"The Canadian Rangers of 2nd Canadian Ranger Patrol Group [will] support the Quebec Ministry of Health and Social Services in Nunavik in preventing the spread of COVID-19. We are proud to support this request from the Government of Quebec, which has been approved by federal authorities," 2nd Canadian Division and Joint Task Force (East) Commanding Officer Gervais Carpentier said on Tuesday.
Fourteen Canadian Ranger patrols from the 2nd Canadian Ranger Patrol Group (2 CRPG) will be entrusted with a number of tasks, including preparing triages in the northern community of Nunavik, the statement said.
The 2 CRPG will mobilize 40 rangers on continuous standby and another 40 for singular tasks.
Quebec has been one of the hardest hit regions in Canada with 8,580 confirmed cases of novel coronavirus infections and 121 deaths. Officials have expressed concern about areas of heightened vulnerability, especially indigenous and northern communities.
On Tuesday, Chief Public Health Officer Dr. Theresa Tam revealed that the number of confirmed novel coronavirus cases in Canada increased to 17,063, while the death toll increased to 345.
The World Health Organization declared the COVID-19 outbreak a pandemic on 11 March. To date, more than 1,400,000 people have been infected with the new coronavirus worldwide, while 81,000 have succumbed to the deadly virus, according to Johns Hopkins University.
https://sputniknews.com/world/202004071078872775-canadian-rangers-deploying-to-quebec-to-assist-with-covid-19-containment/