FILE PHOTO: Ecuador's former president Rafael Correa is pictured ahead of an interview with Reuters in Brussels, Belgium, October 8, 2019. REUTERS/Francois Lenoir/File Photo
QUITO (Reuters) - The president of Ecuador's National Justice Court on Friday said he had signed an extradition request for the country's ex-President Rafael Correa, who lives in Belgium, seeking his return to Ecuador to serve an eight-year jail term for bribery.
An Ecuadorian court sentenced Correa to eight years in prison in 2020, accusing him - along with other officials - of being behind wrongful charges to contractors in a move to finance electoral campaigns for his political movement between 2012 and 2016.
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