BUENOS AIRES, (Reuters) – Former Argentine President Carlos Menem was acquitted yesterday of smuggling arms to Croatia and Ecuador in the 1990s during a 10-year presidency remembered for free-market reforms and corruption.
Menem, now a frail, 81-year-old senator, smiled as a judge read out the “not guilty” verdicts on him and 17 others, including his former brother-in-law and presidential advisor, Emir Yoma.
