Nicolas Sarkozy found guilty of criminal conspiracy
Former French President Nicolas Sarkozy was found guilty of the penalty conspiracy in a case of receiving millions of euros from Late Libyan leader Col Muammar Gaddafi for receiving illegal funds.
The Paris Criminal Court was acquitted of all other charges, including passive corruption and illegal campaign financing.
Sarkozy, who claims that the case was political motivated, was accused of using funds from Gaddafi to finance the 2007 election campaign.
On the other hand, the prosecution claimed that Sarkozy would help Gaddafi to fight Western countries as a Pariah.
70-year-old Sarkozy became the President of France between 2007-2012.
Judge Nathalie Gavarino said that Sarkozy has allowed Libyan to communicate with the Libyan officials to get financial support for his campaign.
However, the court decided that Sarkozy was not enough evidence to find out that he was the utility of illegal campaign financing.
It is expected to be sentenced later today.
In 2013, the investigation was opened two years after Saif Al-Islam, the son of the Libyan leader at the time, accused Sarkozy of receiving his money’s money for campaign financing.
The following year, the Lebanese businessman Ziad Takieddine, who has long been a mediator between France and the Middle East for a long time, said that Sarkozy’s campaign proposal was written by Tripoli that he was financed by Tripoli.
Sarkozy’s wife, former Italian-born super model and singer Carla Bruni-Sarkozy Last year, he was accused of concealing evidence of the Gaddafi case And both are associated with injustices to make fraud that denies.
Since the loss of the election proposal in 2012, Sarkozy has been targeted by several criminal investigations.
He also appealed against the February 2024 decision that found him Guilty of spending more than the 2012 re -election campaignThen rent a PR company to cover up. He was sentenced to one year imprisonment for six months.
In 2021, he was found guilty of trying to bribe a judge in 2014 and became the first former French President to be custody. In December, the Paris Court of Appeal decided that he could label his time at home instead of going to jail.
