Australian engineer Robert Pether sentenced to five years in Iraqi prison after dispute with central bank
by Christopher Knaus from on (#5NSWR)
Desree Pether had hoped her husband was going to be freed. Instead, she had to tell their three children their dad was not coming home
The family of Australian engineer Robert Pether say they are living in hell" after he was sentenced to five years in an Iraqi jail and fined $USD12m over a protracted business dispute between his employer and the country's central bank.
Pether was detained without charge in Baghdad in April, after flying to Iraq at the invitation of the Central Bank of Iraq to resolve a dispute it was having with his engineering firm, CME Consulting, over the construction of its new headquarters.
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