When Andrea Vella was put on leave from Goldman Sachs a little over a year ago, perhaps he thought this whole Malaysian money-laundering-and-bribery thing would blow over and he could go back to co-heading investment banking in Asia or some such after a dignified period in exile. After all, he’d managed to survive his last scrape with sovereign wealth fund follies, that with the Libyan Investment Authority, arguing (successfully!) that whatever blame placed at Goldman’s door for all the money the Libyans lost was simply the result of some poor Libyan attempting to avoid Muammar Gaddafi’s gallows.