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Jean-Pierre Bemba was acquitted last June of charges of murder, rape and pillaging committed by his private army in the neighbouring Central African Republic. [File, AFP]
Former DR Congo vice-president Jean-Pierre Bemba is demanding 68 million euros in compensation from the International Criminal Court following his war crimes acquittal last year, his lawyer said Monday.
Lawyers said Bemba's assets -- including seven planes and three villas in Portugal -- were "simply allowed to rot" by the court while he spent a decade behind bars in The Hague.
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