Guillaume Soro, the previous renegade pioneer running for president in Ivory Coast, was indicted in absentia on Tuesday of theft and condemned to 20 years in jail.

The decision, reported after a preliminary that kept going just a couple of hours and was boycotted by Soro’s legal advisors, is probably going to bar Soro from October’s political race, when President Alassane Ouattara is because of venture down.

Investigators gave a capture warrant for Soro in December – not long before he wanted to get back from Europe to dispatch his battle – for supposedly plotting an overthrow against his previous partner Ouattara’s legislature and taking open assets.

Soro has denied the charges, which he says are planned to keep him from testing Ouattara’s favored replacement, Prime Minister Amadou Gon Coulibaly, in the political decision.

“Guillaume Kigbafori Soro is sentenced to 20 years in jail for stealing assets and washing open assets,” said the appointed authority, Cissoko Amouroulaye. The court likewise requested that Soro be deprived of his metro rights for a long time.

Soro, 47, is relied upon to confront another preliminary over the overthrow charges.

Soro drove the agitators that cleared Ouattara to control during the common war that followed his contested political decision triumph in 2010.

He proceeded to fill in as PM and speaker of parliament under Ouattara however the two men later dropped out as the president clarified he would restrict Soro’s presidential aspirations