Former President Nicolas Sarkozy is standing trial for allegedly having received illegal campaign financing from Libya's ...

France’s highest court on Wednesday upheld an appeal court decision that found former president Nicolas Sarkozy guilty of corruption and influence peddling while in office. Sarkozy, 69 ...

Former French president Nicolas Sarkozy went on trial on Monday, on charges of having received millions of euros in illegal financing from Libya’s late strongman Moammar Gadhafi for his ...

PARIS, Jan 6 (Reuters) - Former French president Nicolas Sarkozy is standing trial over accusations he used Libyan cash to fund his 2007 presidential campaign, one of several legal battles the ...

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 ...

France’s highest court, the Cour de Cassation, upheld on Wednesday the conviction of former President Nicolas Sarkozy for corruption and influence peddling. Sarkozy had challenged a 2021 verdict ...

By Aurelien Breeden Reporting from Paris Former President Nicolas Sarkozy of France on Monday went on trial in Paris over accusations that his 2007 campaign received illegal financing from the ...

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PARIS (AP) — France’s highest court has upheld an appeal court decision which had found former President Nicolas Sarkozy guilty of corruption and influence peddling while he was the country's ...

France's highest court upheld Nicolas Sarkozy's corruption and influence-peddling conviction. He received a three-year sentence, with two years suspended, for attempting to bribe a judge for ...