LEGAL ANALYSIS OF THE LAW OF EXTINCTION OF DOMAIN AND CORRUPTION IN ECUADOR
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Due to the high levels of corruption in Ecuador, alternatives arise to reduce them, these are fragile when recovering money from corruption in crimes such as extortion, bribery, embezzlement, and others. Thus, the investigation proposes to identify the results achieved in the recovery of money resulting from corruption with the application of the Organic Law of Extinction of Domain (LOED), a legal tool that despite its validity has not achieved its objective. The investigation was developed with the purpose of determining the applicability of the (LOED) in the Ecuadorian context from the criminal field; This is how an extensive theoretical study was carried out based on the dogmatic analysis of the current regulations. The application of the positivist paradigm; the qualitative and quantitative modality; methods, analytical; synthetic; deductive; logical history, allowed to strengthen knowledge on the subject; In addition to this, the interview technique revealed that this Law presents a series of legal loopholes that facilitate the commission of acts of corruption; confirming the hypothesis that this mechanism is ineffective at the time of confiscating assets resulting from this type of act. The broad definition of illicit activity, and the pre-existence of an enforceable conviction in the crimes determined in literal a) article 7 of the LOED, configures a legal institution of prejudiciality, a legal obstacle that must be resolved before determining that has configured one of the conditions for domain extinction.
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