Ecuador Comptroller Drops Probe of Lasso’s Pandora Papers

Ecuador’s Comptroller General’s Office has dropped its investigation of President Guillermo Lasso’s former offshore assets mentioned in Pandora Papers leaks, the presidency said in a statement sent via text message.

• The investigation sought to determine whether he held assets that barred him from running for the presidency under an anti-tax haven law
• The comptroller “is the lone competent authority to analyze and judge whether a public official complied or not with the commitment of not having assets in tax havens”
• The probe showed that Lasso didn’t violate these rules, “as political groups in ill faith sought to position in ...