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.Judge Rolando Olvera also ordered the ex-governor to surrender a condominium he purchased in Port Isabel, a coastal city in Texas. He had faced a maximum sentence of up to 20 years.
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