France's former president, Nicolas Sarkozy, faces a new trial charged with accepting illegal campaign financing from Libya during his 2007 presidential election. He is accused of colluding with the late Libyan dictator, Muammar Gaddafi, to fund his campaign illegally.
PARIS — France's former president Nicolas Sarkozy , convicted twice in separate cases since leaving office, was set to go on trial on Monday charged with accepting illegal campaign financing in an alleged pact with the late Libya n dictator Moammar Gadhafi .Sarkozy's career has been shadowed by legal troubles since he lost the 2012 presidential election, but he is an influential figure and also known to regularly meet President Emmanuel Macron.
The fiercely ambitious and energetic 69-year-old, who, while in power from 2007 to 2012, liked to be known as the 'hyper president,' has been convicted in two cases, charged in another, and is being investigated in connection with two more.The new trial is starting barely half a month after France's top appeals court on Dec. 18 rejected his appeal against a one-year prison sentence for influence peddling, which he is to serve by wearing an electronic tag rather than in jail.Sarkozy is expected to be present in the Paris court when the trial gets underway and plans to attend the initial phase of hearings, a source close to him told Agence France-Presse (AFP), asking not to be named.Twelve suspects are standing trial, including former close aides, accused of devising a pact with Gadhafi to illegally fund Sarkozy's victorious 2007 election bid. They deny the charges.If convicted, Sarkozy faces up to 10 years in prison under the charges of concealing embezzlement of public funds and illegal campaign financing.The trial is due to last until April 10.Sarkozy 'is awaiting these four months of hearings with determination. He will fight the artificial construction dreamed up by the prosecution. There was no Libyan financing,' said his lawyer Christophe Ingrain.Sarkozy is still not wearing the electronic tag — a process which could take several weeks — and spent the Christmas holidays in the Seychelles with his wife, model and singer Carla Bruni, and their daughte
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