Ex-French President Sarkozy guilty of ‘criminal conspiracy’ with Libya | World | News

A Paris Court, former French President Nicolas Sarkozy, found some accusations of allegedly illegal financing of the 2007 Presidential campaign of the presidential campaign in 2011 and the illegal financing of the 2007 Presidential campaign. The court details the decision and did not immediately punish 70 -year -old Sarkozy, but was not continued by a 70 -year prison sentence. He can still object to the guilty decision.

His wife, singer and model Carla Bruni-Sarkozy, accompanied by the former Prime Minister in court and sat on the front row of the defendant’s seats. All three adults were there. With the decision, the first former French President Sarkozy found guilty of accepting illegal foreign funds.

He was elected in 2007, but in 2012 he lost his proposal to be re -elected. Sarkozy rejected all injustice during a three -month hearing, including 11 common defense, including three former ministers.

The accusations follow the roots until 2011, when a Libyan news agency and Gadhafi say that the Libyan state secretly took millions of euros in the 2007 campaign of 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 peace judges later said that the grade looked authentic, but there was no final evidence of a completed transaction in the three -month Paris case.

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.

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.

Lawyer Elise Arfi said that one of the defendants Takieddine died in Beirut on Tuesday. He was 75 years old. He fled to Lebanon in 2020 and did not attend the hearing.

Sarkozy was tried on passive corruption charges, illegal campaign financing, hiding public funds to embezzlement and Punishment Association.

Prosecutors, Sarkozy’s Gadhafi government with the “corruption agreement” claimed that they knowly benefited.

Libya’s long -term dictator was overthrown and killed in an uprising in 2011 and ended the four -year administration of the North African country.

In the 2000s, when Gadhafi tried to restore diplomatic ties with the West with the West, he shed light on France’s rear channel talks. Before that, Libya was accepted as a Pariah State.

Sarkozy rejected allegations politically motivated and dependent on false evidence. During the hearing, he said he was staged by “liars and scammers”, including “Gadhafi clan”.

Campaign financing allegations, as the president of France for the abolition of Gadhafi – as a retaliation for the call.
Sarkozy was one of the first Western leaders in Libya in 2011, when pro -democracy protests sweep the Arab world.

“What reliability can be given to these statements marked with revenge seal?” Sarkozy asked during the trial.
In June, Sarkozy was removed from the Legion of Honor Medal, the highest prize in France after his conviction in a separate case.

Previously, he was found guilty of corruption and was sold in 2014 because he had bribed a peace judgment.

Sarkozy was sentenced to wear an electronic monitoring bracelet for a year. In May, he was released in May, which allowed him to release an electronic label after wearing a little more than three months.

In another case, Sarkozy was sentenced to an illegal campaign financing in the last year’s failed 2012 re -election proposal. He was accused of spending almost twice the maximum legal amount and was sentenced to six months in prison.

Sarkozy rejected the allegations. He appealed to the highest Cassation court and this appeal in waiting.