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MYSTERIOUS: Former mexican presidential candidate sentenced to us prison | Mind Blowing Facts

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Tomas Yarrington Ruvalcaba (left) poses with other members of Mexico’s Institutional Revolutionary Party in May 2005, as they organise ahead of the 2006 presidential elections [File: Daniel Aguilar/Reuters]

A former Mexican presidential candidate has been sentenced to nine years in prison after officials accused him of spending millions of dollars in bribes on property purchases in the United States.

Tomás Yarrington Ruvalcaba, the 66-year-old former governor of Tamaulipas in northeast Mexico, received the sentence on Wednesday in a US District Court for southern Texas.

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