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.
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