Colombian Anticorruption Official Is Arrested in U.S. Bribery Case
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Colombian Anticorruption Official Is Arrested in U.S. Bribery Case
Colombian said that With indignation and profound institutional pain,
The former governor of Córdoba was cooperating with the federal authorities
and had agreed to wear a wire during meetings with the prosecutor and a middleman who the former governor said were extorting him, according to the indictment unsealed Tuesday in United States District Court in Miami.
By FRANCES ROBLESJUNE 27, 2017
MIAMI — Colombia’s top anticorruption prosecutor was arrested Tuesday in his country’s capital after Drug Enforcement Administration agents in Miami said they had
recorded him in South Florida at meetings where a former Colombian governor was asked to pay bribes in exchange for favorable treatment and names of witnesses.
The attorney general’s office said the criminal case against the former governor would proceed,
but he has offered to cooperate with the Colombian authorities.
The statement from the attorney general’s office confirmed
that the unnamed former governor referred to in Mr. Moreno’s criminal complaint was Alejandro Lyons Muskus of Córdoba, on Colombia’s Caribbean coast.
According to the indictment, if Mr. Lyons agreed to pay $132,000 in cash, Mr. Moreno would discredit the witnesses against him and give prosecutors so much work
that they would not be able to focus on the former governor’s case.
Colombian said that With indignation and profound institutional pain,
The former governor of Córdoba was cooperating with the federal authorities
and had agreed to wear a wire during meetings with the prosecutor and a middleman who the former governor said were extorting him, according to the indictment unsealed Tuesday in United States District Court in Miami.
By FRANCES ROBLESJUNE 27, 2017
MIAMI — Colombia’s top anticorruption prosecutor was arrested Tuesday in his country’s capital after Drug Enforcement Administration agents in Miami said they had
recorded him in South Florida at meetings where a former Colombian governor was asked to pay bribes in exchange for favorable treatment and names of witnesses.
The attorney general’s office said the criminal case against the former governor would proceed,
but he has offered to cooperate with the Colombian authorities.
The statement from the attorney general’s office confirmed
that the unnamed former governor referred to in Mr. Moreno’s criminal complaint was Alejandro Lyons Muskus of Córdoba, on Colombia’s Caribbean coast.
According to the indictment, if Mr. Lyons agreed to pay $132,000 in cash, Mr. Moreno would discredit the witnesses against him and give prosecutors so much work
that they would not be able to focus on the former governor’s case.