20 November 2012

CROATIA / HUNGARY / AUSTRIA : Ex-PM Sanader Gets 10 Years For Corruption.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-20407006

      Former Croat PM Ivo Sanader was sentenced to 10 years for taking millions in bribes from an Austrian bank and Hungarian energy company.
      PM from 2003-2009...Sanader, 59... denied taking $13 million from energy giant Mol...and $700,000 from banking group Hypo Alpe Adria.
     Prosecutors called Sanader...a war profiteer.
     The EU has been pressuring Balkan nations to cleanup widespread corruption.