BUENOS AIRES (Reuters) - An appeals court convicted former Argentine President Carlos Menem on Friday of smuggling arms to Croatia and Ecuador in the 1990s during a decade in power remembered for free-market reforms and corruption.
The court said it had found Menem guilty of being "co-author of the offense of aggravated contraband" in a ruling that overturned a lower court's acquittal of the former leader on the same charges two years ago.
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