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 ...

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 ...

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

Sarkozy’s former head of campaign financing, who now serves in parliament as a member of French President Emmanuel Macron’s party; and Brice Hortefeux, a former minister. Takieddine fled to ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

Trial opens of former French President Sarkozy over alleged campaign funding by Libya’s ex-leader Gadhafi PARIS -- Trial opens of former French President Sarkozy over alleged campaign funding by ...

France’s president began a visit to Lebanon Friday, where he will meet the crisis-hit country’s newly elected leaders, as 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 ...

France's Former President Sarkozy Stands Trial Over Alleged Campaign Funding by Libya's Gadhafi PARIS (AP) — Former French President Nicolas Sarkozy went on trial Monday over the alleged illegal ...