Former Slovene prime minister Janez Jansa was sentenced on Monday (28 April) to two years in prison over a high-profile scandal involving defence contracts and bribery.
The decision by the Higher Court in Ljubljana, which upholds an earlier ruling by a district court, is expected to be followed within weeks by a call for Jansa to start his custodial sentence.
Jansa's lawyers have pledged to challenge and to "invalidate" the verdict.
It all started in 2005, during Jansa's fir...
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