{"id":23701,"date":"2011-04-28T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2011-04-28T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.capitalfm.co.ke\/?p=23701"},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-29T21:00:00","slug":"costa-rican-ex-president-found-guilty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.capitalfm.co.ke\/news\/2011\/04\/costa-rican-ex-president-found-guilty\/","title":{"rendered":"Costa Rican ex president found guilty"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>SAN JOSE, Apr 28 &#8211; A Costa Rican court sentenced former president Miguel Angel Rodriguez to five years in prison after finding him guilty of taking bribes from French telecoms giant Alcatel.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&quot;Miguel Angel Rodriguez Echeverria has been found to have been the main instigator of the crime of aggravated corruption &#8230; and will receive a sentence of five years in prison,&quot; announced Rosaura Garcia, the lead criminal judge on the second circuit panel in San Jose.<\/p>\n<p>Rodriguez, 71, a former head of the Organization of American States who resigned in 2004 when the scandal broke, also was barred from public office for 12 years, the court said.<\/p>\n<p>Eight other people charged along with the ex-president for taking bribes from Alcatel were convicted and sentenced to varying terms.<\/p>\n<p>Prosecutors sought seven years behind bars for Rodriguez for allegedly receiving over $800,000 in payments from Alcatel during his presidency, in exchange for helping it get a $149-million government contract to provide 400,000 cell phone lines.<\/p>\n<p>Rodriguez, who led the Central American country from 1998 to 2002, said he would appeal.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;This case is not over; we will go to appeal,&quot; Rodriguez said.<\/p>\n<p>Late last year, Paris-based Alcatel-Lucent agreed to pay a fine of about $137 million to avoid US prosecution into alleged bribes paid in countries including Costa Rica, Honduras, Malaysia and Taiwan between December 2001 and June 2006.<\/p>\n<p>The US Justice Department said Alcatel had violated the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act prior to its 2006 merger with US-based Lucent Technologies.<\/p>\n<p>Alcatel-Lucent admitted that the company earned some $48.1 million in profits as a result of the actions, officials said.<\/p>\n<p>US officials said the bribery payments were undocumented or improperly recorded as consulting fees in the books of Alcatel\\&#8217;s subsidiaries and that head of units in the regions &quot;either knew or were severely reckless in not knowing about the misconduct.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>Rodriguez, with the Social Christian Unity Party, is the second former Costa Rican president to be tried for corruption. 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