Paris Court Sentences Former French President Sarkozy To Five Years In Prison | World News

On Thursday, a Paris Court sentenced the former French President Nicolas Sarkozy to five years imprisonment, a “postponed effect” was also fined any public function and € 100,000.

Euro News, the court’s decision, the Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi regime in the 2007 elections to achieve a victory in a case allegedly accepted an illegal campaign financing came from Sarkozy’s penalty conspiracy.

However, on Thursday, the court acquitted Sarkozy for passive corruption, embezzling Libyan public funds and financing an illegal election campaign. The court said that the criminal conspiracy charges were related to the participation of a group of corruption from 2005 to 2007, according to the report.

Sarkozy, who served as the president of France between 2007-2012, can appeal to the court’s decision. In addition, he may request a court for conditional release due to his age. According to French laws, Sarkozy will be called by the Public Prosecutor’s Office within a month, which will be informed about the date of imprisonment. The decision of the Paris Court’s decision Sarkozy (70) is the first former French president who was convicted of such a high -level criminal offense.

Prosecutors accused Sarkozy of participating in an agreement with Gaddafi for money for the election campaign, and that Libya helped him rehabilitate his stance in the world, and that Gaddafi’s brother -in -law Abdallah Senosi was sentenced to a airway bombing of 170 people.

During the three -month hearing at the beginning of this year, judges investigated the evidence, including trips to Tripoli in 2005, including money transfers through maritime accounts, and claimed that Sarkozy’s government has protected Gaddafi’s former Chief of General Staff Bechir Saleh. Judges have even analyzed the suspicious death of a Libyan Oil Minister, who stated that the notes for “Sarkozy” payments.

Sarkozy rejected the accusations by emphasizing that there is no evidence of evidence ”that connects the Libyan funds to his campaign. His lawyers claimed that the case was based on unreliable documents and testimonies. Euro News, including three former ministers, including 11 common defendants reported that the case.

This case adds the legal problems faced by the former French President. He was sentenced in the other two cases – “BYGMALION RELATION” on the so -called “Bismut Case” that affected the presidential campaign expenditures and corruption and corruption in 2012. Sarkozy had to wear an electronic ankle bracelet between January -May, a penalty for the former French President. He applied to the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR).