David Char Navas is a
Colombian politician who served as Member of the
Chamber of Representatives of Colombia
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Electoral system
According to the Colombian Constitution, the Chamber of R ...
from 2002 to 2006 and as
Senator of Colombia
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from 2006 to 2008. He was forced to resign to his seat in the Senate due to controversies surrounding two incidents for which he was being investigated, the first related to a city contract that his company Los Ángeles Ltd signed with the then Mayor of Barranquilla Bernardo Hoyos Montoya; the second came to surface after his name appeared in a seized computer of
Jorge 40, a paramilitary leader of the
United Self-Defense Forces of Colombia
The United Self-Defences of Colombia (''Autodefensas Unidas de Colombia'', or AUC, in Spanish) was a Colombian far-right paramilitary and drug trafficking group which was an active belligerent in the Colombian armed conflict during the period ...
.
Family
David comes from a well established and influential,
Syrian-Arab-Colombian family, he is the son of Habib Char Abdala and Vivian Navas. He is the nephew of
Fuad Char Abdala
Fuad Ricardo Char Abdala (born 5 October 1937) is a Senator of Colombia serving his fifth term in Congress, albeit not all consecutively. He is the founder of .
Family
Fuad was the son of Ricardo Char Zaslawy, an immigrant from Lebanon who a ...
, and cousin of
Arturo and
Alejandro Char Chaljub, all politicians from the
Atlántico Department
Atlántico (, en, Atlantic) is a department of Colombia, located in northern Colombia with the Caribbean Sea to its north, the Bolívar Department to its west and south separated by the Canal del Dique, and the Magdalena Department to its ...
. His family are the majority shareholders of the
Junior Barranquilla, the city's foremost soccer team,
and founders of Olimpica S.A., a chain of supermarkets in Colombia.
References
People from Barranquilla
David
David (; , "beloved one") (traditional spelling), , ''Dāwūd''; grc-koi, Δαυΐδ, Dauíd; la, Davidus, David; gez , ዳዊት, ''Dawit''; xcl, Դաւիթ, ''Dawitʿ''; cu, Давíдъ, ''Davidŭ''; possibly meaning "beloved one". w ...
Colombian people of Syrian descent
Living people
Radical Change politicians
Members of the Chamber of Representatives of Colombia
Members of the Senate of Colombia
Year of birth missing (living people)
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