FORMER COLOMBIAN ANTI-CORRUPTION OFFICIAL PLEADS GUILTY IN US TO MONEY-LAUNDERING

The Wall Street Journal on 15th August reported that Colombia’s former national anti-corruption director, Luis Gustavo Moreno Rivera, and a Colombian lawyer, Leonardo Luis Pinilla Gomez, have pleaded guilty to US charges of conspiring to launder money to promote foreign bribery.  They will be sentenced in November.  They were arrested in Colombia in May and extradited to the US.

https://blogs.wsj.com/riskandcompliance/2018/08/15/former-colombian-anticorruption-official-pleads-guilty-in-u-s-to-money-laundering-charge/

Author: raytodd2017

Chartered Legal Executive and former senior manager with Isle of Man Customs and Excise, where I was (amongst other things) Sanctions Officer (for UN/EU sanctions), Export Licensing Officer and Manager of the Legal-Library & Collectorate Support Section

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