Noriega jailed for 7 years

FORMER Panamanian dictator Manuel Noriega was jailed for seven years in France yesterday after being convicted of laundering drug money.

Noriega has already spent 20 years in US custody for drug trafficking and was extradited to France in April.

A prosecutor said millions of dollars passed through Noriega’s French bank accounts during the late 1980s were kickbacks from the powerful Medellin cocaine cartel.