US EditionNicolas Sarkozy Illegal Campaign Financing Conviction Upheld
The Court of Cassation will decide if Sarkozy's 2012 campaign illegally spent nearly €43 million, double the legal limit, risking a six-month sentence with electronic monitoring.
- On Wednesday, the Court of Cassation in Paris will rule on whether a lower appeals court properly convicted Nicolas Sarkozy over alleged illegal campaign financing, marking his last chance to avoid a second final conviction.
- Prosecutors say Sarkozy's 2012 campaign spent nearly 43 million euros and that Sarkozy's right‑wing party worked with Bygmalion, public relations firm, to conceal the true costs.
- A lower appeals court confirmed Nicolas Sarkozy's conviction in February last year, though the Court of Cassation could order a retrial; Sarkozy denies `any criminal responsibility' and calls the allegations `lies'.
- If upheld, the conviction would carry a six‑month term possibly enforced by an electronic bracelet; Nicolas Sarkozy served 20 days in La Santé prison, remaining influential on the right.
- In earlier cases, courts found Sarkozy exhausted his final appeal in December last year after a Kadhafi-linked conviction, and he announced a book due next month about his three-week jail experience amid criticism of visits by President Emmanuel Macron and Justice Minister Gérald Darmanin.
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Nicolas Sarkozy and his team are said to have spent about 20 million euros too much on his attempted re-election. France's ex-president does not want to have known about this, but it is now expensive for him.
France's top court upholds Sarkozy's conviction for illegal campaign financing in 2012
France’s top court has upheld ex-President Nicolas Sarkozy’s conviction for illegal campaign financing of his reelection bid in 2012. Wednesday’s decision by the Court of Cassation makes definitive Sarkozy’s conviction to a year in prison half of it suspended for…
The French Supreme Court (Cour de cassation) has confirmed the sentence of the former President of the Republic to one and a half years in prison (six weeks in firm), two weeks after his departure from the Parisian prison in La Santé, where he spent twenty days, convicted in a separate case of association of criminals and extortion of public funds.The decision of the French Supreme Court, in the early afternoon of Wednesday, puts an end, before …
Former French President Nicolas Sarkozy was released just ten days ago from prison. He is on provisional release until his appeal for an unlawful association sentence is resolved in the case of illegal financing of his presidential campaign in 2007 by the Libyan regime of Muammar el Gaddafi. While he waits, the French Supreme Court confirmed this Wednesday another six-month prison sentence, which he will be able to serve in house arrest, also fo…
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