Sarkozy in Libya affair spoken partly guilty

Election campaign money from Libya

Sarkozy in Libya affair spoken partly guilty

A blow to France’s former head of state Sarkozy: In the explosive process of alleged campaign money from Libya, he is partly guilty. Is the old president in custody in custody?

France’s former President Nicolas Sarkozy was partly guilty in the process of alleged campaign money from Libya. A Parisian criminal court sentenced him for “criminal association”, but free to speak of the allegations of bribery and illegal campaign financing. The court also freely spoke of the allegation of benefiting from the embezzlement of public funds.

The sentence was expected in the morning. Sarkozy threatened up to ten years in prison and a fine in the process. The judgment is not yet final, an appeal is possible. The former head of state has always vehemently rejected the allegations.

“Criminal Association” understands French criminal law a group or an agreement, which has been shaped or closed for the purpose of preparing at least one crime that is more than five years in prison. The reason for the judgment continued in the late morning.

The Libya affair is about the accusation that Sarkozy’s presidential election campaign in 2007 is said to have flowed illegally from the leadership of the then Libyan ruler Muammar Gaddafi. A witness testified in 2016 that he brought several cases prepared in Libya to the Paris Ministry of Paris at the end of 2006 or early 2007, which was then led by Sarkozy. According to the indictment, the later president concluded a corruption pact with Gaddafi. Familiar Sarkozys are said to have threaded the alleged flows of money through middlemen.

In addition to the former head of state, twelve other people were charged with the politically explosive process – including three former ministers.

The indictment had requested seven years in prison and a fine of 300,000 euros for the former hope of France’s bourgeois rights. She saw a number of possible consideration for Libyan campaign aid. The Gaddafi, formerly rather isolated on an international stage, received Sarkozy at the end of 2007 with military honor in the Élysée Palace. Efforts are also said to have been prospect of lifting the arrest warrant against Gaddafi’s brother -in -law Abdallah Senoussi. Senoussi was guilty of a French aircraft with 170 dead in Paris as the main person responsible for a terrorist attack on a French plane. Economic business also led the indictment.

The three -month mammoth process followed for more than ten years of investigation. The investigations had started after the Gaddafi family himself claimed to have financed the conservative election campaign. The spectacular process then dealt with ominous secret meetings and diary entries of a Gaddafi confidante.