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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Via AP news wire

A European lawmaker is sentenced in a fraud case involving Czech populist leader Andrej Babiš

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A Czech court on Monday convicted a former associate of populist Prime Minister Andrej Babiš of fraud and handed her a three-year suspended sentence and a fine.

Babiš was also a defendant alongside Jana Nagyová in the $2 million fraud case involving European Union subsidies but could not be sentenced because lawmakers in the lower house of Parliament rejected in March a motion to lift his immunity from prosecution.

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