51.   Four other communists were given death sentences for the killings.

52.   Four other members of the Abu Sultan family were given life sentences for their involvement in the shootings which also injured a third Abu Sultan brother seriously.

53.   Gen. Antonio Cerciello, of the paramilitary Financial Guard police, was given a sentence of four years and two months.

54.   He was given suspended sentences for both convictions.

55.   He was given suspended sentences for each conviction.

56.   If found guilty, the defendants could be given life sentences in prison.

57.   However, courts rarely give maximum sentences.

58.   In three previous cases, judges gave suspended sentences, saying the men were too old and frail to be imprisoned.

59.   It did not say when the sentences were given or identify the defendants.

60.   It gave suspended sentences to an additional nine police officers and customs and tax officials who sold some of the contraband vehicles.