A former member of the now-defunct
centrist Italian party Union of the Centre (UdC) was sentenced
to four years in jail Monday for taking a bribe from two
Azerbaijan politicians to get the Council of Europe to pull a
critical report on political prisoners in the Caucasus republic.
Luca Giuseppe Volontè is a former member of the parliamentary
assembly of the European human rights body.
He was found guilty of taking about two million euros from the
Azeri politicians, who were given the same four-year sentence.
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