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 ...

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

French former president Nicolas Sarkozy attends a ceremony at the Arc de Triomphe in Paris. (Ludovic Marin/Pool via AP) France’s former president Nicolas Sarkozy goes on trial on Monday over alleged ...

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 Nicolas Sarkozy is standing trial over accusations he used Libyan cash to fund his 2007 presidential campaign, one of several legal battles the politician who once bestrode the ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...