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QUITO, Ecuador An Ecuadorean journalist who formerly edited of the country's oldest newspaper was found stabbed to death in his home, police said Monday.

Carlos Navarrete Castillo, who lost control of El Telegrafo newspaper to the government last year after a lengthy legal battle, was stabbed 11 times in Guayaquil on Saturday, the city's police department said in a statement. There was no evidence of robbery, and his body was discovered Sunday.

"The body had several lacerations, and there were signs that his hands had been tied," police said.

Since taking over as editor in 2002, Navarrete — a former lawyer — had fought in the courts for years to wrest control of El Telegrafo back from the government, which seized the paper from its former principal shareholder in the late 1990s after he was accused of mismanaging a bank.

After the paper's government-controlled shareholders board ousted Navarrete in 2007, clearing the way for it to become a state newspaper, he launched the small Guayaquil daily La Calle.

Navarrete's grandfather and great-grandfather also were editors of El Telegrafo, which was founded in 1884.