In what The Man From FCPA can term as emanating from the “Well That’s Awkward Dept.,” it was recently reported that Colombia’s top anti-corruption prosecutor was arrested in Miami, U.S., for, you guessed it—attempted corruption through extortion of a criminal defendant. Luis Gustavo Moreno was arrested in June after he was alleged to have demanded payments “in exchange for favorable treatment and names of witnesses” from a criminal defendant, Alejandro Lyons Muskus, the former Governor of the Colombian state of Córdoba. Lyons had been charged with some 20 counts related to an embezzlement scheme.
