A Comoros court has sentenced ex-president, Ahmed Sambi, to life in prison for high treason.
A public prosecutor Ali Djounaid, said Sambi betrayed the mission entrusted to him by the Comorians.
He was sentenced by the State Security Court, a special judicial body whose rulings cannot be appealed.
The former leader, who led the tiny Indian Ocean nation between 2006 and 2011, enacted a law in 2008 allowing the sale of passports for high fees.