2023-07-09 21:43:48
Former President Iván Duque reportedly paid $239,000 for the apartment. Credits: Instagram / ivanduquemarquez.
As of today, former President Iván Duque has not given explanations for the purchase of an apartment in Washington, United States, which happened by chance after participating as a witness in a meeting between Óscar Iván Zuluaga and ‘Duda’ Mendonça. Both involved in the Odebrecht scandal in Colombia.
At the time, Iván Duque pointed out that he would have bought the apartment for 239 thousand dollars (about $488 million pesos in 2014) with his savings and layoffs after 12 years of work at the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB).
Former President Iván Duque reportedly paid $239,000 for the apartment. Credits: Instagram / ivanduquemarquez.
Duque’s controversial apartment in Washington
“We bought it, first, with resources from my work, with resources also from my layoffs and from my liquidation at the Inter-American Development Bank and also from my wife’s income, at the time when she had the liquidation of the Organization of American States. ”, Duque assured at the time in an interview with FM.
A month before the purchase of such an expensive apartment, Duque launched himself as a candidate for the Senate for the Democratic Center. In addition to assuming the position of program director of the presidential campaign of Óscar Iván Zuluaga.
It was in charge of program manager of the Zuluaga campaign when Iván Duque traveled to São Paulo, Brazil in the company of the then Uribismo presidential candidate and they had a meeting Duda Mendonça.
???? Daniel García Arizabaleta, another good uribista boy stuck in Odebrecht.
During the meeting, it would have been arranged for Duda to advise Zuluaga’s campaign in exchange for receiving 1.6 million dollars. Money that Odebrecht paid and that, according to Zuluaga, did not go through his campaign.
However, according to the audios delivered to the Prosecutor’s Office by García Arizabaleta, who was in charge of organizing the meeting between Zuluaga and Duda, the Uribista candidate did know about that negotiation and they would have tried to hide it when the Brazilians confessed before the courts of their country.
The curious thing about the meeting is that days after the meeting Iván Duque bought the apartment in the District of Columbiaso there are still doubts if Duque bought the apartment with Odebrecht money.
The Lord @IvanDuque he was programmatic head of the Zuluaga campaign. On February 5, 2014, three weeks before buying an apartment in Washington, he traveled to São Paulo in the company of Zuluaga and they had a meeting with Duda Mendonça. The 1.6 million dollars that he put… pic.twitter.com/tpkjHNhHjm
— Beto Coral (@Betocoralg) July 1, 2023
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