A federal US court sentenced former Bolivian Interior Minister Arturo Murillo to nearly six years behind bars on Wednesday for conspiracy to commit money laundering, the US Department of Justice said in a statement. Murillo pleaded guilty in October to receiving at least $532,000 in bribes from a Florida-based company in exchange for helping it secure a lucrative tear gas contract with Bolivia’s defence ministry. Murillo was sentenced to 70 months in prison in the US District Court for the Southern District of Florida. Four co-conspirators were sentenced in the United States last June, after t…