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Sarkozy received suitcases of money from Gaddafi to finance his 2007 presidential campaign, trial begins in France's biggest corruption scandal

2025-01-06 12:22:43Kosova&Bota SHKRUAR NGA REDAKSIA VOX
 
Sarkozy received suitcases of money from Gaddafi to finance his 2007
Gaddafi and Nicolas Sarkozy

Former French President Nicolas Sarkozy will go on trial today over the biggest political financing scandal in modern French history, in which he is suspected of receiving millions of euros.

The historic trial of the former right-wing French president and 12 others – including three former government ministers – for criminal conspiracy to receive large sums of money from a foreign dictator threatens to further worsen voters' already low trust in the French political class.

After a 10-year anti-corruption investigation, the court will hear charges of what judges called a "corruption pact" forged between Sarkozy and the Libyan regime, in which middlemen delivered suitcases of cash to ministry buildings in Paris to illegally finance Sarkozy's winning presidential campaign in 2007.

The court will examine whether, in exchange for financing Sarkozy's presidential campaign, the Libyan regime demanded diplomatic, legal and business favors.

One of these alleged requests for favors involved Abdullah al-Senussi, Gaddafi’s spy chief and policy enforcer. Al-Senussi was sentenced in absentia to life imprisonment by a French court in 1999 for his role in the bombing of a UTA passenger plane over Niger in 1989, which killed 170 people. The court will hear how, according to the indictment, the Libyan regime asked Sarkozy’s circle to find a way to lift France’s international arrest warrant against al-Senussi.

Laure Heinich, a lawyer representing 15 relatives of victims of the UTA plane bombing, said her clients will express their shock in court when they hear that "the arrest of the person who killed their family members" could have been "exchanged for money."

She said the alleged corruption pact means that "the money that Nicolas Sarkozy used to win the 2007 elections was money tainted with the blood of these families."


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