The Post reported earlier that a second D.C. government employee has been arrested in the ongoing federal bribery and embezzlement case involving the D.C. Office of the Chief Technology Officer. Farruk Awan, 37, was arrested this morning on charges of conspiring to commit bribery and launder money. Awan is the third person to be arrested in the case, after OCTO employee Yusuf Acar and businessman Sushil Bansal. He’s accused of receiving bribes from Bansal in exchange for approving Bansal’s company’s employees to work at the technology office, among other charges.

Awan has been on administrative leave from the OCTO since shortly after the FBI raid. An agenda for a 2006 computer security technology conference in Baltimore includes this photo at right of Awan, in which his first name is spelled Farrukh, along with biographical information listing him as a “Security Systems Architecture and Engineering Manager with the Office of The Chief Technology Officer for the District of Columbia Government.” The bio says that Awan previously worked at NASDAQ, NASD, EDS, Freddie Mac and provided consulting services to numerous other clients, and that at OCTO, he is “responsible for leading a team whose mission is to design and build secure network solutions.”