Colombia’s Top Anti-Corruption Official, Luis Gustavo Moreno, Charged With Corruption in Miami

One of those two men, the feds say, was none other than Luis Gustavo Moreno Rivera — Colombia‘s chief anti-corruption official. Rivera was taken into custody in Bogota this afternoon and charged with spearheading his own brazen corruption campaign that centered on nearly $200,000 in bribes he tried to wring out of another former Colombian politician in Miami.

Even in the long and storied history of Latin American corruption bleeding into the Magic City, the allegations in the federal case against Moreno and a lawyer who allegedly helped him set up the corrupt scheme are startling. Moreno allegedly even traveled to the U.S. to give an anti-corruption presentation to the feds — just before taking bribes in Miami.

At the center of the feds’ case is a cooperating witness who helped lead a sting against Moreno. The feds identify the man only as a former governor of the Cordoba region; the Miami Herald IDs him as Alejandro Lyons Muskus, whom the Herald wrote an unrelated story about last week. Muskus is reportedly wanted on 20 corruption charges in Colombia — and may even be tied to a political murder — but has been staying in Miami where his wife is being treated for a high-risk pregnancy.

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