Sarkozy faces 2025 trial over alleged Libyan corruption

By Agence France-Presse

Aug 25, 2023 7:50 pm

PARIS: Former French president Nicolas Sarkozy will be tried in 2025 over allegations he took money from late Libyan dictator Moamer Kadhafi to fund one of his election campaigns, prosecutors said Friday.

The trial is set to hear explosive evidence that the rightwinger, along with 12 other co-defendants, conspired to take cash from the Libyan leader to illegally fund his victorious 2007 bid for the presidency.

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