Colombian Anticorruption Official Is Arrested in U.S. Bribery Case<br />Colombian said that With indignation and profound institutional pain,<br />The former governor of Córdoba was cooperating with the federal authorities<br />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.<br />By FRANCES ROBLESJUNE 27, 2017<br />MIAMI — Colombia’s top anticorruption prosecutor was arrested Tuesday in his country’s capital after Drug Enforcement Administration agents in Miami said they had<br />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.<br />The attorney general’s office said the criminal case against the former governor would proceed,<br />but he has offered to cooperate with the Colombian authorities.<br />The statement from the attorney general’s office confirmed<br />that the unnamed former governor referred to in Mr. Moreno’s criminal complaint was Alejandro Lyons Muskus of Córdoba, on Colombia’s Caribbean coast.<br />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<br />that they would not be able to focus on the former governor’s case.
