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| France's ex-president Sarkozy under formal investigation over allegations of campaign cash from Libya | France's ex-president Sarkozy under formal investigation over allegations of campaign cash from Libya |
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| Nicolas Sarkozy, the former French president, is being formally investigated over claims he accepted ex Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi's money to finance his 2007 election, the National Financial Prosecutor’s Office announced. | Nicolas Sarkozy, the former French president, is being formally investigated over claims he accepted ex Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi's money to finance his 2007 election, the National Financial Prosecutor’s Office announced. |
| Two years after his triple indictment for corruption, embezzlement of Libyan public funds and illicit financing of the 2007 electoral campaign, it was announced on Friday that Sarkozy is being investigated for “criminal association”. | Two years after his triple indictment for corruption, embezzlement of Libyan public funds and illicit financing of the 2007 electoral campaign, it was announced on Friday that Sarkozy is being investigated for “criminal association”. |
| Sarkozy was informed on Monday by the National Financial Prosecutor’s Office (PNF) and in a statement on Facebook, has denied any wrongdoing. | Sarkozy was informed on Monday by the National Financial Prosecutor’s Office (PNF) and in a statement on Facebook, has denied any wrongdoing. |
| Following the three charges against Sarkozy in 2018, in January 2020, the PNF broadened the investigation into the Libyan financing scandal to include criminal association. | |
| Allegations of corruption first came to light in 2011, when the son of Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi, claimed that his father had helped finance Nicolas Sarkozy’s successful election campaign in 2007. It was claimed that that the Libyan state had donated €50 million to Sarkozy in expectation that the favor would be returned. | |
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