ZAGREB: Croatia’s ex-prime minister Ivo Sanader was found guilty Tuesday of embezzling millions of euros in public funds while in power and sentenced to nine years in jail, his second graft conviction in two years.
The two-year-long trial, which also found the former ruling HDZ party guilty of the same charges, was seen here as the most important corruption case since the former Yugoslav republic's 1991 independence.—AFP
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