Nicolas Sarkozy sentenced to 5 years in prison over Muammar Gaddafi campaign funds conspiracy
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In addition, for the first time since the Second World War, a former president was found guilty of a foreign government with a penalty conspiracy and sentenced to prison for the first time.
He was accused of hiding the criminal conspiracy to blame the public funds, passive corruption, illegal campaign financing and crime ”.
During the three -month hearing at the earliest of this year, Sarkozy rejected all the charges over and over again and claimed that the case was politically motivated.
The Gaddafi, which was ignored and killed in an uprising in 2011, was allegedly involved in Libyan spies, arms vendors and claims of Gaddafi, which was sent to Paris.
Prosecutors accused Sarkozy of signed a Faustan Corruption Pact with one of the most unpleasant dictators of the last 30 years ”.
However, there was no evidence that an agreement was made directly between Sarkozy and Gaddafi during the hearing.
The accusations watched his roots until 2011, when a Libyan news agency and Gaddafi himself secretly made millions of euros in the 2007 campaign of the Libyan state Sarkozy’s 2007 campaign.
In 2012, the French investigation output MediaPart, 50 million-Euro financing agreement referring to a Libyan intelligence grade, said they said. Sarkozy condemned the document as forgery and filed a slander case.
French Magistrates said that the grade seems authentic later, but no definite evidence was offered that there was a completed process at the hearing.
Inspectors also worked as the Minister of Interior between 2005 and 2007, including the Chief of the Personnel, while examining a series of trips to Libya by people close to Sarkozy.
Sarkozy visited Libya shortly after being elected and invited Gaddafi to Elysee Palace during a very criticized state visit.
In 2016, Ziad Takieddine, a Franco-Lübneli businessman, gave MediaPart to the French Ministry of Interior under the direction of Sarkozy from Tripoli. Then he pulled his statement back.
This return is now the focus of a separate investigation into a possible witness tampering.
Both Sarkozy and his wife Carla Bruni-Sarkozy were given preliminary accusations because they were involved in efforts against Takieddine. This case has not yet been tried.
Sarkozy was one of the first Western leaders in Libya in 2011, when pro -democracy protests sweep the Arab world.
Although it has legal headaches and honor legion, Sarkozy, whose highest distinction of France, has been stripped of in June, continues to be an effective figure in the French political scene.
Telegraph, London
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