The case also involves Gaddafi’s former chief of staff and treasurer, Bashir Saleh, who sought refuge in France during the Libyan civil war and then moved to South Africa, where he survived a shooting ...

were given preliminary charges as financial prosecutors said the former president is suspected of “benefitting from corruptly influencing” Mr Takieddine. The other accused are three former French ...

PARIS (AP) — Former French President Nicolas Sarkozy went on trial Monday over the alleged illegal financing of his 2007 presidential campaign by the government of then-Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi.

Former President of France Nicolas Sarkozy arrived in court in Paris on Monday, January 6, to stand trial over accusations of illegal financing of an electoral campaign during the 2007 presidential ...

Former French President Nicholas Sarkozy went on trial on Monday on charges he accepted some 50 million euros in illegal campaign financing from late Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi. Sarkozy ...

PARIS — Former French President Nicolas Sarkozy vigorously denounced a “plot” he said was staged by “liars and crooks” on Thursday at a Paris trial over the alleged illegal financing of ...

Nicolas Sarkozy, who has already been convicted in two other cases, faces charges of passive corruption, illegal campaign ...

Former French President Nicolas Sarkozy will stand trial on Monday over claims that his 2007 presidential campaign was illegally funded by the government of the late Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi.

The former president, who served between 2007 and 2012 ... defendants including three former ministers. Ziad Takieddine, a French-Lebanese businessman accused of working as an intermediary ...

PARIS - Former French president Nicolas Sarkozy went on trial on Jan 6, on charges of having received millions of euros in illegal financing from Libya’s late strongman Muammar Gaddafi for his ...

Watch live as former French president Nicolas Sarkozy goes on trial on Monday (6 January) after his 2007 presidential campaign was allegedly financed by late Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi.

Former French President Nicolas Sarkozy will go on trial on Monday for allegedly receiving illegal finances from the regime of the late Libyan President Muammar Gaddafi for his presidential ...