Michele Sensi-Contugi was an Italian-Ecuadorian businessman and senior government official who rose from Ecuador’s private sector to become the country’s intelligence chief and a close associate of President Daniel Noboa. Born in Italy on August 12, 1982, to an Italian father and an Ecuadorian mother, Michele Sensi-Contugi held Italian and Ecuadorian nationality. He later built
UPDATE: An Ecuadorian intelligence chief and five Americans, including a Telemundo executive, were among the seven people killed in a helicopter crash in Samburu on August 19. Authorities identified the Ecuadorian official as Michele Sensi Contugi, a 44-year-old dual Italian-Ecuadorian national who headed Ecuador’s National Intelligence Centre in Quito. The crash killed all seven people