(ROUGH CUT ONLY - NO REPORTER NARRATION)<br/> <br />Former Croatian Prime Minister Ivo Sanader arrived at Zagreb's county court on Tuesday (November 20) for sentencing over taking bribes from two foreign companies.<br/> <br />Sanader was then sentenced to 10 years in prison, becoming the highest state official to be convicted of corruption in the future European Union member state.<br/> <br />The county court found Sanader guilty of agreeing in 2008 to accept a payment from Hungary's energy group MOL of 5 million euros in exchange for granting it full management rights over Croatia's oil concern INA.<br/> <br />Sanader has strongly denied wrongdoing and dismissed the trial as politically motivated.