Ecuador drug trafficking in Ecuador, Adolf Masia, or “Fito”, agreed Friday to be issued in the US, where he is facing charges of prosecutors for cocaine and weapons trading, Latin State justice said.

Fito, one of the most dangerous criminals in the country, was arrested in late June in his hometown, the city of Manda, 350 kilometers south of the capital Kito, after a year and a half he escaped, after his escape from a high security prison.

Was able to escape January 2024 from her huge prison Waggilwhere he had been sentenced to 34 years in prison for participating in organized crime, drug trafficking and murders since 2011.

Wearing an orange imprisoned outfit, with a long beard, Fito (ADolf’s Name of the Spanish name) participated yesterday in a hearing from his cell via video conference. He simply answered “Yes, I accept” (the version).

The court ruling paves the way for his transfer.

“After the edition (…) was accepted” by the person concerned, “The process of switching it to the US will follow its intended course”, according to the court ruling.

President Daniel Noboa remains to formally order his issue in the US.

The 45 -year -old will be the first Ecuadorian national to be issued in that country, after restoring the possibility of implementing this particular procedure through a referendum in 2024, a measure promoted by President Noboa in the context of the fight against organized crime.

Leading one of the country’s main gangs, the “Tsoneros”, with a dominant position in the trafficking of cocaine, Fito was linked to the murder in August 2023, a candidate for the presidency of Fernando Viavissenio.

His escape in early 2024 was a wave of wave of violence unprecedented in the state of Latin America: more than 200 police officers and members of the prison security personnel were abducted, explosions, dozens of people were murditated, street -bearing murders, street strokes. Prosecutor conducting the investigation into this latest case was assassinated in May.

The president Nostrils declared the time the country in state ‘Inner armed conflict’, Developing the army inside to eliminate some 20 gangs, which were proclaimed “terrorist” organizations.

Due to its geographical location, between Colombia and Peru – the two states, which records the largest production of cocaine in the world – the dollar economy and its ports of strategic importance in the Pacific, Ecuador has been transformed in recent years into the theater of wild conflicts and the US.