Edgardo José Maya Villazón

Maya was appointed Comptroller General of the Republic on August 19, 2014, and finished his appointment on August, 2018.

In 2006 and 2007 Maya was questioned by the Colombian media, opposition politicians and others for the involvement of some members of his stepfamily in a parapolitics scandal. His stepson Governor of Cesar Department, Hernando Molina was accused of being part of an AUC paramilitary bloc and for benefiting from the paramilitary support to threaten other candidates running for Governor to resign. His nephew in law and former Senator of Colombia Álvaro Araújo Castro and his father Álvaro Araújo Noguera (Maya's brother in law) were also questioned and indicted in parapolitics related activities.

The President of Colombia Álvaro Uribe reappointed Edgardo Maya as for the period of 2005–2009 after a voting session in the Senate of Colombia on November 9, 2004. Maya's appointment ceremony took place in the Casa de Nariño Presidential Palace. This reelection was the cause of numerous criticisms

On January 13, 2001 Maya was appointed Inspector General of Colombia for the 2001–2005 period.

He was also an auxiliary magistrate of the Labor Cassation Chamber of the Colombian Supreme Court of Justice. He was also Department of Cesar's Auxiliary Comptroller and member of the Redaction Commission of the Statutory Law for Justice Administration and also participated in the reform to the Unique Disciplinary Code (Law 200 of 1995). In 1999, Maya was a delegate of the International Labour Organization. He later became a magistrate of the Superior Council of the Judicature's Jurisdictional Disciplinary Chamber, as president and vice president.

Edgardo José Maya Villazón (born July 24, 1951) is a Colombian lawyer, and former Inspector General of Colombia and Controller General of Colombia.