WORLD IN BRIEF : DOMINICAN REPUBLIC : Former President Guilty of Corruption
Former President Salvador Jorge Blanco was convicted of corruption charges and sentenced to 20 years in prison after a two-year trial. Jorge Blanco, 65, president from 1982 to 1986, was tried and convicted in absentia in November, 1988. He returned later that month from Atlanta, where he had undergone treatment for a heart condition. His new trial, interrupted frequently by illness, began in April, 1989. In his second trial he was convicted of embezzling $5 million by inflating the price of equipment bought by the military and national police.
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