Posted on 10/25/2018 8:19:37 AM PDT by Olog-hai
A French appeals court ruled Thursday that former president Nicolas Sarkozy should stand trial on charges of illicit financing of his failed 2012 presidential campaign.
Sarkozy, 63, will appeal the decision before the Cour de Cassation, France’s court of final appeal, his lawyers said Thursday.
It is one of several legal inquiries which have dogged the rightwing politician since he left office.
In upholding last year’s decision by a judge to put Sarkozy on trial, the appeals court in Paris rejected arguments from his legal team seeking to avoid a potentially embarrassing public ordeal of a trial as well as up to a year in prison if found guilty.
Prosecutors claim Sarkozy spent nearly €43 million ($51 million) on his lavish re-election bid — almost double the legal limit of €22.5 million — via fake invoices.
Sarkozy has angrily denounced the charges, saying he was unaware of the fraud by executives at public relations firm Bygmalion, who are also facing trial alongside accountants and former officials of his UMP party. …
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Saif al-Islam, son of Libya's ex-dictator Muammar Gaddafi, welcomes Nicolas Sarkozy's detention -- and offers evidence for claims first made to Euronews that Libya funded the former French president's 2007 election bid.
Gaddafi's son offers to give evidence that Libya funded Sarkozy election bid
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Saif al-Islam, son of Libya's ex-dictator Muammar Gaddafi, welcomes Nicolas Sarkozy's detention -- and offers evidence for claims first made to Euronews that Libya funded the former French president's 2007 election bid.
Gaddafi's son offers to give evidence that Libya funded Sarkozy election bid
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