"Newspaper Expreso and its publishing company, Granasa, publicly denounced an attempt of intimidation by José Julio Neira, current Secretary General of Public Integrity [of Ecuador] and director of several institutions, who on Sept. 17 posted a video on his personal X account linking the media outlet to an alleged tax evasion and money laundering scheme.
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The problem is that the Secretary of Public Integrity is making these statements without any real evidence, setting up an alleged false invoicing scheme in which he is trying to implicate one of the newspapers that's most critical of the government.
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Fundamedios warns of the seriousness of attempting to use information from an [Internal Revenue Service] tax audit to try to implicate a media outlet critical of its management in alleged tax crimes, establishing a narrative that discredits Expreso and independent journalism."
