GENEVA, April 4 (Reuters) - Mining magnate Beny
Steinmetz said he would appeal against a guilty verdict for
corruption upheld by a Swiss appeals court on Tuesday, saying
the decision was "unfair and politically motivated".
The Geneva court upheld a guilty verdict for corruption made
by a lower court in 2021. But it acquitted him of forgery and
reduced his sentence to three years' imprisonment of which 18
months must be served.
"Beny Steinmetz considers that the Geneva justice system
turned a blind eye to procedural flaws, stretched the rules of
jurisdiction, compensated for the lack of evidence, and misused
the penal code to save a conviction that it did not dare to
dismiss," he said in a statement.
(Reporting by Emma Farge, Editing by Louise Heavens)
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