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 ...

Former French President Nicolas Sarkozy arrives as he goes on trial over alleged illegal financing of his 2007 presidential campaign by the government of late Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi ...

Sarkozy, 69, was notably suntanned when he took his place in a Paris dock on Monday afternoon, having just returned from a holiday in the Seychelles with his third wife, Carla Bruni, the 57-year ...

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 (AP) — 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 ...

French prosecutors today claimed to have irrefutable proof that former president Nicolas Sarkozy arranged a ‘corruption pact’ with the late Libyan leader Colonel Gaddafi. It was worth around ...

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Former French President Nicolas Sarkozy arrives as he goes on trial over alleged illegal financing of his ...

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.

However, French investigative magistrates eventually ... were given preliminary charges as financial prosecutors said the former president is suspected of “benefitting from corruptly influencing ...