Leaked videos in which a disgraced former minister accuses Ecuador's vice president of taking part in corruption at the state-run oil company is heating up the final stretch of the country's presidential campaign. In one of the videos, Oil Minister Carlos Pareja is seen taking a lie detector test in which he affirms all decisions at Petroecuador were made with the consent of Vice President Jorge Glas. The videos were posted Friday on social media by an anonymous user going by the name "Capaya Leaks" in reference to Pareja's nickname. Glas is running again as vice president on a ticket backed by retiring President Rafael Correa in a closely contested election Feb. 19. "It's clearer than water," Pareja says in the video, in which he appears to be speaking to two journalists.

Source: Los Angeles Times February 04, 2017 02:37 UTC