French ex-president Nicolas Sarkozy is placed under formal investigation over allegations he accepted illegal campaign donations in 2007, his lawyer says.
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- Carla Bruni treated as suspect in Nicolas Sarkozy corruption case
The supermodel-turned-singer and wife of the former French president, was questioned by police on Thursday as a suspect in a lawsuit involving Muammar Gaddafi ...
05/2/2024 - 9:59 am | View Link - Carla Bruni Is Now a Suspect in Her Hubby’s Witness-Tampering Case
It stems from allegations that Nicolas Sarkozy accepted campaign funding from Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi.
05/2/2024 - 7:01 am | View Link - Court questions Carla Bruni over Libya funding for Sarkozy case
A French court questioned Carla Bruni, the wife of former French president Nicolas Sarkozy, amid investigations into alleged illegal campaign funding from Libya for his election bid in 2007. Sarkozy ...
05/2/2024 - 4:59 am | View Link - Wife of ex-French president Sarkozy suspect in witness tampering case
Singer and model Carla Bruni was on Thursday questioned as a suspect in a witness tampering case against her husband, former French president Nicolas Sarkozy, two sources said.Questioned as a witness ...
05/2/2024 - 2:01 am | View Link - Carla Bruni-Sarkozy questioned in husband's witness tampering case
The wife of former French president Nicolas Sarkozy is being investigated for her ties to a former 'paparazzi queen' suspected of orchestrating the retraction of a key witness in the case on Sarkozy's ...
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- Sarkozy: Ex-French president gets jail sentence over campaign funding
Former French President Nicolas Sarkozy has been sentenced to a year in prison for illegally funding his unsuccessful 2012 re-election campaign. The 66-year-old was found guilty in a Paris court ...
05/5/2024 - 12:26 pm | View Website - Nicolas Sarkozy to wear tag after losing corruption appeal
Former French President Nicolas Sarkozy has lost his appeal against a prison sentence for corruption. However, the Paris appeals court ruled that he could serve his time at home wearing a tag ...
05/5/2024 - 12:19 pm | View Website - France’s Sarkozy convicted of corruption, sentenced to jail
Former French President Nicolas Sarkozy, center, arrives at the courtroom Monday, March 1, 2021 in Paris. The verdict is expected in a landmark corruption and influence-peddling trial that has put French former President Nicolas Sarkozy at risk of a prison sentence if he is convicted. Sarkozy, who was president from 2007 to 2012, firmly denied ...
05/5/2024 - 4:34 am | View Website - Paris court upholds conviction of French ex-President Sarkozy in ...
PARIS (AP) — An appeals court in Paris on Wednesday upheld a guilty verdict against former French President Nicolas Sarkozy for illegal campaign financing in his failed 2012 re-election bid. Sarkozy was convicted in a lower court in September 2021 and sentenced to a year of house arrest for illegal campaign financing.
05/5/2024 - 3:29 am | View Website - Nicolas Sarkozy
Nicolas Paul Stéphane Sarközy de Nagy-Bocsa ( / sɑːrˈkoʊzi / sar-KOH-zee; French: [nikɔla pɔl stefan saʁkɔzi də naʒi bɔksa] ⓘ; born 28 January 1955) is a French politician who served as the president of France and co-prince of Andorra from 2007 to 2012. Born in Paris, his roots are 1/2 Hungarian Protestant, 1/4 Greek Jewish, and ...
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