In the trial against France’s ex-president Nicolas Sarkozy Because of alleged Election campaign money from Libya Has the indictment requested seven years in prison. In addition, the financial prosecutor’s office in Paris advocated a fine of 300,000 euros for the 70-year-old.
The Libya affair is about clues that Sarkozy’s presidential election campaign in 2007 illegally million sums from the regime of the then Libyan ruler Muammar al-Gaddafi should have flowed. The conservative, which was French president from 2007 to 2012, had always rejected the allegations.
Calculation sees an agreement with Gaddafi
According to the indictment, however, there was a agreement with Gaddafi Financing of the presidential campaignin which cash flowed in forbidden. Therefore Sarkozy must Illegal campaign financing and bribery be found guilty.
The co-accused ex-minister Claude Guéant, Éric Woerth and Brice Hortefeux would have to be convicted of aid. For Guéant, the indictment requested six years in prison and 100,000 euros in fine, three years in prison for Hortefeux and 150,000 euros in fine and a year in prison for Woerth and the payment of 3,750 euros.
The financial prosecutor rejected the thesis of the defense, according to which the allegations against Sarkozy had only been raised out of revenge after he had taken over the management of the international coalition in 2011, which contributed to overthrowing the Gaddafi regime.
Case with millions of euros in the Interior Ministry?
The indictment is based, among other things, on information from the French-Lebanese businessman Ziad Takieddinewho had said that at the end of 2006 or early 2007, he brought several suitcases – prepared by the Libyan regime – with several million euros to the Paris Interior Ministry, which was then led by Sarkozy.
In return for the alleged payment of millions, the Libya, which was outlawed at the time, is said to have been promised good business with French companies and help when returning to the international stage. In fact, Muammar al-Gaddafi was welcomed with military honor in the Élysée Palace in December 2007.
The process is running Until April 8th. It is not yet known when the judgments are spoken.