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ECUADOR
#4 GI-TOC (7.48)
FRAUD TYPES
Money laundering, fraud, organized crime crossover
KEY FACTS
7.48 GI-TOC criminality — tied #4 globally. Fraud volume more than doubled 2024-2025.
REPORT FRAUD IN ECUADOR1▸
1 agency you can contact. Tap one for how to reach it and what to have ready.
FGEFiscalia General Cybercrime Unit▸
NATIONAL · CYBER / CRYPTO
BORN HERE▸
Nobody in our case files was born in Ecuador yet.
OPERATED HERE▸
Nobody in our case files is documented as operating from Ecuador yet.
KNOWN FOR▸
THE PICTURE▸
Ecuador's major fraud and corruption cases concern bribes for public contracts, including the 'Sobornos 2012-2016' case in which former president Rafael Correa was convicted in absentia (National Court of Justice, 2020), and Odebrecht, which admitted paying about $33.5 million in bribes in the country (US DOJ, 2016). The dollarised economy and a surge in organised crime have also made Ecuador a laundering channel for drug proceeds (US State Dept INCSR). Enforcement falls to the Fiscalía General del Estado, the UAFE financial-intelligence unit and the Superintendencia de Bancos.
TOP FRAUDSTERS FROM HERE2▸
Rafael Correa FUGITIVEREPORT PENDING
Not quantified in public summaries · 2012–2016
Former president convicted in absentia of aggravated bribery for campaign money taken in exchange for public contracts; lives in Belgium, which granted him asylum.
SOURCE: National Court of Justice of Ecuador, Apr 2020 (8 years)
Jorge Glas CONVICTEDREPORT PENDING
Not quantified in public summaries · 2010s
Former vice-president convicted of illicit association in the Odebrecht case and later in the bribery case.
SOURCE: National Court of Justice of Ecuador, Dec 2017
FRAUD BY CATEGORY▸
No official body here publishes a breakdown of fraud by type, so we show none rather than guess.
KEY NUMBERS▸
$33.5M Bribes Odebrecht admitted paying in Ecuador (US DOJ, Dec 2016)
WHO FIGHTS IT▸
Fiscalía General del Estado; UAFE financial-intelligence unit.
Court verdicts in the Sobornos (2020) and Odebrecht (2017) cases.
Superintendencia de Bancos rules on electronic banking fraud.
SOURCES▸
Wikipedia summary of court record (Rafael Correa)
US DOJ, Odebrecht plea agreement, Dec 2016
US State Department, International Narcotics Control Strategy Report (INCSR)
Case lists and figures compiled September 2026 from court records, regulators and major press; statuses change. Series reports above are fact-checked case files.