Mónica de Greiff Lindo (born 1956) is a Colombian

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Early years

She started practicing her profession as a recognized

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in the

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, but later started working in the

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. First she was a general secretary of the Colmena

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and later as the general manager of the

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production company Casablanca. After that, she was called by the president of the Republic Virgilio Barco Vargas to occupy the Viceministry of Mines and Energy and later the Viceminister of Justice.

Minister of Justice

She was appointed Minister of Justice by President Virgilio Barco Vargas on 16 July 1989 to replace Guillermo Plazas Alcid. In September 1989 she assumed the position of Minister of Justice and Rights, being the first woman in Colombia to do so; by that time she was the eighth designated person in this department in the last three years, due to the constant

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s of the drug traffickers on whom she was exercising such charges. De Greiff was in charge of the signing of the

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of extradition to the

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of drug traffickers, the fact that it occurred after the death of the presidential candidate,

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. At the beginning of 1990 she had to resign and leave the country, precisely because of the

s, but after she signed it she admitted that she was "obligated to resign by the president Virgilio Barco" and that the extradition was the most difficult point of this war against the mafia.

Secretary of Economic Development of Bogotá

The City

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designated, in January 2008, De Greiff as the District Secretary of Economic Development, being one of its main goals the creation of a similar structure to the one she was managing, with the name of Capital Bank.

Shortlist of Candidates for electing the Fiscal General of the Nation

On the 13th of March the president of

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, Juan Manuael Santos included in the second

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for the fiscal

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, along with the ex-president of the Constitutional Court of

, Eduardo Montealagre, and also the

María Luisa Mesa, who carried out as the counselor of the University of Rosario. This candidate was convened on the 12th of March in 2012, as the president of the Republic Juan Manuel Santos Calderon for the institutional period of 2009–2013. The term, however, was interrupted before the annulment of the election of the previous Fiscal General of the Nation, Vivianne Morales.

Personal life

Born in

, D.C.,

on 6 November 1956, she is the eldest daughter of

Gustavo de Greiff Restrepo Gustavo de Greiff Restrepo (b. June 20, 1929 – d. July 19, 2018) was a Colombian lawyer, educator and activist, who served as Attorney General of Colombia during the Gaviria presidency and later as Ambassador to Mexico during the Samper presi ...

and Inés Lindo Koppel. She has 4 siblings; Natalia, Gustavo, Pablo, and Veronica. She is of Swedish descent through her father and of Danish descent through her mother. She is married to the

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Miguel Paley and together they have one son.

References

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