International judges will sentence former Congolese Vice President Jean-Pierre Bemba next month for bribing witnesses during his war crimes trial.
The “Trial Chamber of the International Criminal Court scheduled a hearing on September 17 to deliver its decision on the re-sentencing of Mr. Bemba, and two others.
In June, a starkly divided five-judge bench overturned Bemba’s 2016 conviction and 18-year jail term for war crimes and crimes against humanity committed by his troops in neighbouring Central African Republic in 2003 and acquitted him.
However, Mr. Bemba and five co-accused persons in a separate case were convicted on appeal in March for bribery, corruption and of coaching 14 defence witnesses in his main trial.
Bemba was originally handed a year-long prison term and a 350 thousand dollar fine.
Appeals judges however ruled that the original sentences imposed for corruption between two-and-half years and six months was too low and sent the case back to the lower court for re-sentencing.
