On Tuesday, the Mizan news agency reported to the judiciary that a revolutionary court in Tehran had sentenced Mr Vandecasteele to three prison terms of 12.5 years and to a fourth prison term of two and a half years and 74 lashes for foreign currency smuggling on charges of espionage, collaboration with a hostile government and money laundering .
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