PARIS: French investigative magistrates on Friday ordered former president Nicolas Sarkozy and 12 others to go on trial on charges that his 2007 presidential campaign received millions in illegal financing from the government of late Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi.
The national financial prosecutor announced that the decade-long investigation has been formally closed. The trial will run from January to April 2025. The case is the biggest and most shocking of multiple graft probes against Sarkozy. He has been convicted in two others.
In the Libya case, he is charged with illegal campaign financing, embezzling, passive corruption. Investigators examined claims that Gaddafi’s government secretly gave Sarkozy ₹50 million for his winning 2007 campaign, more than double the legal campaign funding limit at the time and in violation of foreign funding rules.
The national financial prosecutor announced that the decade-long investigation has been formally closed. The trial will run from January to April 2025. The case is the biggest and most shocking of multiple graft probes against Sarkozy. He has been convicted in two others.
In the Libya case, he is charged with illegal campaign financing, embezzling, passive corruption. Investigators examined claims that Gaddafi’s government secretly gave Sarkozy ₹50 million for his winning 2007 campaign, more than double the legal campaign funding limit at the time and in violation of foreign funding rules.
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