After a second trial on the separate charges, Bemba on Wednesday was also ordered to pay a 300,000 euro ($323,670) fine to the court’s fund supporting victims of atrocities.
Found guilty last year of bribery, the verdict and sentence are the first of their kind in the history of the ICC.
The decision to bring bribery charges against Bemba and four members of his legal team was seen by criminal law experts as a sign that prosecutors had decided to get tough on a practice that threatened their ability to prosecute the gravest crimes.
Credit: Aljazeera
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