A Philippine court found former first lady Imelda Marcos guilty of graft and ordered her arrest in a rare conviction among many corruption cases that she’s likely to appeal to avoid jail and losing her seat in Congress.The anti-graft Sandiganbayan court sentenced Marcos, 89, yesterday to serve 6 to 11 years in prison for each of the seven counts of violating an anti-corruption law when she illegally funnelled about US$200mil (RM835mil) to Swiss foundations in the 1970s as Metropolitan Manila governor.
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