US EditionSarkozy faces possible indictment over witness tampering in Libya funding case
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The French Public Prosecutor's Office has requested the opening of a new trial against former President Nicolas Sarkozy for alleged manipulation of witnesses in connection with the case that took him to prison last October and that is related to the funds received during his election campaign from the Libyan regime of Muamar Gaddafi. The entity has requested that the ex-mandator be tried on the charges of “conspiracy to commit fraud in criminal …
Sarkozy faces possible indictment over witness tampering in Libya funding case
Former French president Nicolas Sarkozy's legal woes looked set to continue as prosecutors on Tuesday said they would seek indictments against him, his wife Carla Bruni-Sarkozy and nine others for alleged witness tampering in the Libya campaign funding case.
The PNF requested a trial against the former President of the Republic, his wife, and the "papesse des paparazzis" "Mimi" Marchand, suspected of having raised money for the withdrawal of Ziad Takieddine.
The French financial prosecutor's office asks that former president Nicolas Sarkozy be tried with 10 other people, including his wife Carla Bruni.
Former French President Nicolas Sakozy, recently released from prison a few weeks ago and just published a book in which he recounts his brief stay in prison, continues to accumulate judicial problems.The National Financial Prosecutor’s Office (NFP) has asked on Tuesday to be prosecuted for having pressured a key witness in the case of Libyan funding for his 2007 election campaign, for which he was sentenced last September to five years in priso…
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