Former Malian finance and economy minister Bouaré Fily Sissoko was sentenced to 10 years imprisonment in Bamako on July 8 in a landmark corruption trial over the controversial 2014 purchase of military equipment and a presidential B737-700(BBJ) under former president Ibrahim Boubacar Keïta, Agence France Presse (AFP) reported.

Sissoko was convicted of “damaging public property,” according to the verdict from Mali’s high-level criminal court, the Bamako Court of Assizes.

Several former Malian…

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