By: JIM GOMEZ / AP

Source: TIME

Former Philippines' First Lady Imelda Marcos Convicted of Corruption in $200 Million Fraud Case 1Imelda Marcos shakes hands with the public in Paranaque, Philippines, south of Manila on March 2, 2016.Marlo Cueto—Pacific Press/LightRocket/Getty Images

(MANILA, Philippines) — A Philippine court found former first lady Imelda Marcos guilty of graft and ordered her arrest Friday in a rare conviction among many corruption cases that she’s likely to appeal to avoid jail and losing her seat in Congress.

The special anti-graft Sandiganbayan court sentenced Marcos, 89, to serve 6 to 11 years in prison for each of the seven counts of violating an anti-corruption law when she illegally funneled about $200 million to Swiss foundations in the 1970s as Metropolitan Manila governor.

Neither Marcos nor anyone representing her attended Friday’s court hearing. No one has issued any reaction on her behalf although her lawyers were expected to appeal the ruling, which anti-Marcos activists and human rights victims welcomed as long overdue.