(Reuters) - A U.S. court sentenced former Bolivian Interior Minister Arturo Murillo to 70 months behind bars on Wednesday for conspiracy to commit mon.
Arturo Murillo pleaded guilty in October to receiving at least $532,000 in bribes from a Florida-based company in exchange for helping it secure a lucrative tear gas contract with Bolivia's defence ministry.
A former Bolivian interior minister has been sentenced in the United States to nearly six years in prison for taking at least $532,000 in bribes to help a Florida company win a lucrative contract to sell tear gas to his country's government.
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