The son of ex-French President François Mitterrand and an ex-government minister have been convicted for accepting bribes to facilitate arms deals to Angola in 1993-98, in breach of French law. Jean-Christophe Mitterrand was given a two-year suspended sentence and ordered to pay €375,000, writes BBC. Former Interior Minister Charles Pasqua was jailed in one year and fined €100,000. The key suspects Arkady Gaydamak, an Israeli-Russian billionaire and Pierre Falcone, French magnate were convicted in absentia with six years in prison for having organized the arms trafficking worth about €800m. In total 42 people were on trial.