A former prime minister of the Democratic Republic of Congo has been sentenced to a decade's forced labour for corruption.


 A former prime minister of the Democratic Republic of Congo has been sentenced to a decade's forced labour for corruption.


Augustin Matata Ponyo was found guilty of embezzling about $245m (£182m) of public funds by the Congolese Constitutional Court on Tuesday, alongside Deogratias Mutombo, the former governor of the DR Congo's central bank.


Matata's lawyer told Reuters news agency that the ruling was unfair and politically motivated.

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