Former French President, Nicolas Sarkozy has been arrested and in police custody since Tuesday for questioning by magistrates looking into allegations of Libyan funding for his 2007 election campaign.
France opened a judicial inquiry in 2013 into allegations that Sarkozy’s successful 2007 election bid benefited from illicit funds from late Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi. A former minister and close ally of Sarkozy,Brice Hortefeux, was also being questioned by police on Tuesday morning in relation to the Libya investigation, another source close to the probe said.
Sarkozy, who served as president from 2007 to 2012, has always denied receiving any illicit campaign funding and has dismissed the Libyan allegations as “grotesque”. In January a French businessman suspected by investigators of funnelling money from Gaddafi to finance Sarkozy’s campaign was arrested in Britain and granted bail after he appeared in a London court.
Sarkozy has already been ordered to stand trial in a separate matter concerning financing of his failed re-election campaign in 2012, when he was defeated by Francois Hollande.
Source: royaltimes.net
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Massa; For me the government should arrest JJ Rawlings and Jon Mahama -Pronto because JJ Rawlings took $5million from Sanni Abacha ex president of Nigeria ; whilst Jon Mahama acccepted bribe from this BURKINA business man Kanazoe ; the evidence is there for every bosy to see.
This is functional democracy with rule of law, strong & powerful institutions and citizens resolve to chase out corrupt politicians. Africans must emulate France on this score.
I think former president of France,Mr. Sarkozy must be prosecuted and hang to death, because his actions betrayed the zero tolerance to corruption by the world leaders.
Your mother should be arrest for doing asha wo at Kanazoe house, and also took money from your ***barred word*** father
if Africans will dash out such money they will take it. Will France just dash such amount of money?
After receiving this much from Gaddafi, Sarkozy teamed up with David Cameron to overthrow Gaddafi leaving Lybia unstable till date. God will reward you Sarkozy according your works.
No wonder this ***barred word*** of a short man spearheaded the ill conceived campaign to oust and kill Gaddafi. May his soul haunt all corrupt leaders who took money from him and yet stood aloof when the western invaders bastardized his country. This include all those toothless and spineless African leaders.
Arrest John Ford Mahama for accepting ford car as a bribe from Kanazoe and also.....arrest Rawlings for accepting $5M from Abacha.....
I dream the day, something like this will happen in Ghana to deepen our democracy and rule of law. Presidents should be held accountable if they break the law