An unidentified passer-by holds up a poster of the movie "Free Willy" in an allusion to former NATO Secretary General Willy Claes outside the Brussels Justice Palace December 23. Belgium's highest court delivered today the verdict in the Agusta-Carapace trial, a multi-million franc bribery case Belgians have dubbed "the trial of the century". Claes was found guilty of corruption and received a suspended three-year sentence.

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