Nicolas Sarkozy found guilty of criminal conspiracy

Former French President Nicolas Sarkozy has been found guilty of a criminal conspiracy in a case related to the taking of millions of euros illegal funds from the late Libyan leader Kohl Muammar Gaddafi.

The Paris Criminal Court justified him for all other charges, including passive corruption and illegal funding for the campaign.

Sarkozy, who claims that the case is politically motivated, has been accused of using Gaddafi funds for financing its election campaign in 2007.

In return, the prosecutor’s office claims that Sarkozy has promised to help Gaddafi fight his reputation with Paria with Western countries.

The 70 -year -old Sarkozy was President of France from 2007 to 2012.

Judge Natalie Gavarino said Sarkozy had allowed close assistants to contact Libyan officers in order to obtain financial support for his campaign.

However, the court ruled that there was insufficient evidence to establish that Sarkozy was the beneficiary of the illegal funding of the campaign.

He is expected to be convicted later today.

The investigation was opened in 2013, two years after Sif al-Islam, the son of the then leader of Libin, for the first time accusing Sarkozy of taking millions of money for his father to fund the campaign.

The following year, Lebanese businessman Ziad Takidin – who has long been acting as a mediator between France and the Middle East – said he wrote proof that the Sarkozy campaign offer was “abundantly” funded by Tripoli and that € 43 million (£ 43) were worth it after becoming president.

Sarkozy’s wife, former supermodel and singer Carla Bruni-Sarkozy, was Accused last year of hiding evidence related to Gaddafi’s case And associated with unlawful to commit fraud, both of them denies.

After losing its application for re -election in 2012, Sarkozy is directed by several criminal investigations.

He also appealed a decision for February 2024 that found it guilty of the 2012 re -election campaign.Then hiring a PR company to conceal it. He was given a one -year sentence, which had been suspended for six months.

In 2021, he was found guilty of trying to bribe a judge in 2014 and became the first former French president to be sentenced to fall. In December, the Court of Appeal in Paris decided that he could endure his time at home, wearing a label instead of going to prison.