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Judi Lynn

(160,524 posts)
Thu Jan 3, 2019, 08:11 PM Jan 2019

US judge convicts Colombia's former anti-corruption czar for corruption

US judge convicts Colombia’s former anti-corruption czar for corruption
by Canin Carlos January 3, 2019

A US judge sentenced Colombia’s former top anti-corruption prosecutor to four years in prison after admitting he took a bribe from a former governor in a Miami mall.

Moreno, who was personally appointed by Prosecutor General Nestor Humberto Martinez in 2016, received a reduced sentence because he was already sentenced to five years in Colombia.

The conviction sent a shock wave through Colombia’s notoriously corrupt political establishment, according to newspaper El Tiempo, after Martinez’ former anti-corruption chief agreed to testify against 26 Colombian officials accused of making part of so-called “toga cartel.”

This could potentially result in US extradition requests for Colombia’s former chief justice, other former members of the Supreme Court and prominent politicians who allegedly bribed Supreme Court magistrates to frustrate criminal investigations.

More:
https://colombiareports.com/us-judge-convicts-colombias-former-anti-corruption-czar-for-corruption/

LBN:
https://www.democraticunderground.com/10142235704

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Judi Lynn

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1. US gives ex-Colombian corruption official 4 years for bribes
Thu Jan 3, 2019, 09:23 PM
Jan 2019

US gives ex-Colombian corruption official 4 years for bribes
Updated 7:39 pm CST, Wednesday, January 2, 2019

MIAMI (AP) — A former top official with Colombia's anti-corruption agency has received a four-year sentence from a U.S. judge for seeking bribes.

U.S. District Judge Ursula Ungaro in Miami sentenced Luis Gustavo Moreno Rivera on Wednesday on a money-laundering charge he pleaded guilty to last August. Co-defendant Leonardo Luis Pinilla received two years.

The 37-year-old Moreno is former director of the anti-corruption office for Colombia's chief prosecutor, while the 32-year-old co-defendant is an attorney.

The Drug Enforcement Administration said Moreno and Pinilla sought to obtain tens of thousands in bribes from a former governor of Colombia's Cordoba region who was under a separate corruption investigation. The former governor has been identified in Colombia as Alejandro Lyons.

Moreno and Pinilla traveled to Miami to accept $10,000 in 2017 and were seeking $130,000 more.

https://www.chron.com/news/crime/article/US-gives-ex-Colombian-corruption-official-4-years-13504621.php

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