Quito - Ecuador's highest court has sentenced the exiled former President Abdala Bucaram to two years in prison on separate counts of slandering political rivals. The eccentric Mr Bucaram had accused a prominent centre-left rival, Mr Alexandra Vela, in October 1996 of stealing documents and Mr Jaime Nebot, leader of the right-wing Social Christian Party, of corruption in January 1997.
Ex-president guilty of slander
Quito - Ecuador's highest court has sentenced the exiled former President Abdala Bucaram to two years in prison on separate counts…
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