Lowenfield’s personal assistant leads WIN Nomination Day process

Duarte Hetsberger, the Personal Assistant to disgraced former Chief Elections Officer Keith Lowenfield, has joined Azruddin Mohamed’s party.

He was leading the party’s nomination day process, sitting next to Mohamed.

Hertsberger was dismissed at the end of December 2021, months after he benefited from a premature three-year renewal to his contract as the Personal Assistant to the Lowenfield.

Hetsberger was allegedly a prime suspect in the deletion of important data from computers within the GECOM Secretariat.

Hetsberger’s alleged actions were only detected when the new GECOM CEO, Vishnu Persaud, conducted an investigation after taking up the post.

“He realised that several computers were wiped. Computers which were under the control of that officer… when the IT Department intervened, the explanations he provided did not make sense according to the CEO’s report,” Sase Gunraj, a GECOM Commissioner told the News Room then.

Both Lowenfield and Hetsberger were being investigated by the police as part of their probe into allegations of fraud following the March 02, 2020, General and Regional Elections.