Former French president Nicolas Sarkozy has to answer to a newspaper report in court. He was accused of illegal influence, announced Le Monde and news agency AFP. The 63-year-old is refore suspected of having gained insight into investigations of his campaign financing through a network of whistleblowers. The suspicion of influence had arisen when investigators had evaluated telephone incisions in this affair. Sarkozy was French head of state from 2007 to 2012.
Sarkozy's defender immediately announced that he would go against charges. This is also directed against two or protagonists of affair: Sarkozy's lawyer Thierry Herzog and ex-prosecutor Gilbert Azibert.
Specifically, in 2014, Sarkozy should have tried his lawyer to bribe Azibert, who was n a prosecutor at Court of Cassation. According to indictment, target was information on investigations against Sarkozy on illegal campaign financing by L'Oréal heiress Liliane Bedding Court in 2007. In 2013, Sarkozy was acquitted of accusation that he had exploited weakness of dementia-sick billionaire. But in telephone calls between Sarkozy and his lawyer, who were intercepted by investigators for anor affair, new incriminating material appeared.
Post in Monaco in return?The investigators found that Duke Azibert apparently had prospect of a prestigious post in Monaco in return for information on fall beds Court. Sarkozy is supposed to have made phone calls with his lawyer from a mobile phone running under wrong name of Paul Bismuth. The lawyer and ex-prosecutor must also be responsible for "breach of professional secrecy" in corruption proceedings.
There should also be irregularities in Sarkozy's 2012 campaign fund: In his unsuccessful presidential campaign against François Hollande in 2012, Sarkozy exceeded permissible budget ceiling of 22.5 million euro according to investigators ' findings Clearly. His Conservative party has tried to conceal this by means of a system of false accounts in millions of dollars.
The former president has also been officially suspected of illegal campaign financing for well over a week. The Conservative politician is put in charge of accepting money from former Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi and having invested in his 2007 election campaign. Sarkozy rejected accusations as "grotesque." A few years later, under Sarkozy, France was instrumental in NATO air raids against Libyan regime. With help of NATO air strikes, Libyan rebel fighters were able to overthrow Gaddafi in 2011. A little later, ruler was killed.
Date Of Update: 30 March 2018, 12:03
