Managua's first Penal Hall Appeals Court upheld on Thursday the 20-year prison sentence against former President Arnoldo Aleman for corruption.
The court president Ileana Perez said Aleman will serve his sentence under the "house for jail" regime, namely, house arrest.
But she added that the National Penitentiary System officials will eventually decide where he will serve his sentence.
Aleman was convicted and sentenced to a 20-year prison term in 2003 for money laundering and embezzlement, but later freed under a parole that restricted his movements to the capital city.
That parole was loosened earlier in 2007 by Nicaragua's National Penitentiary System, which granted Aleman free rein to travel throughout the country. His whereabouts on Thursday was not immediately known.
Source: Xinhua
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