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Uribe's personal assistant resigns over Colombia's 2018 election fraud scandal
by Adriaan Alsema March 10, 2020
Maria Claudia Daza (L) and President Ivan Duque at a party also attended by late mafia boss Jose Guillermo Hernandez. (Image: El Tiempo)
The personal assistant of Colombia’s former President Alvaro Uribe resigned on Monday after being implicated in a scandal over alleged mafia involvement in a conspiracy to rig the 2018 presidential election.
Maria Claudia Daza allegedly coordinated vote-buying in northern Colombia with Jose Guillermo Hernandez, the alleged money launderer of the drug trafficking organization of Marquitos Figueroa.
Hernandez was murdered in Brazil in May last year.
According to television network Caracol, friends of Daza said she will leave the country on Tuesday claiming “the country convicted her before hearing her.”
More:
https://colombiareports.com/uribes-personal-assistant-resigns-amid-claims-mafia-rigged-colombias-2018-elections/