After being found guilty of massive crimes committed while in office, former President of the Republic of Comoros Ahmed Abdalla Sambi was sentenced to life in prison.
The National Security Court, the highest court in the country, sentenced the former president, then 64 years old, to life in jail.
He had been accused of swindling millions of dollars from state coffers and was found guilty of selling passports to stateless persons in the gulf.
The former president was angry and decided not to show up to his case hearing at the national security court because he felt it would be unfair.
Before his trial, conviction, and imprisonment, Sambi had already spent four years in jail.
After passing a law allowing the selling of Comoros passports to stateless individuals in the gulf for a price, Sambi had maintained through his attorneys that there was no evidence that public money was stolen.
