The former French president Nicolas Sarkozy will go on trial on Monday over the biggest political financing scandal in modern French history, in which he is alleged to have received millions of euros in illegal election campaign funding from the former Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi, APA reports citing The Guardian.
The historic trial of the rightwing former French president and 12 other people – including three former government ministers – for criminal conspiracy to receive funds from a foreign leader on a massive scale threatens to worsen voters’ already low trust in the French political class.
Sarkozy, who was president between 2007 and 2012, has denied all wrongdoing in the case.
If convicted on corruption charges, Sarkozy could face up to 10 years in prison alongside Claude Guéant, a former Élysée secretary general and interior minister, and Brice Hortefeux, a close Sarkozy ally who also served as interior minister. All deny wrongdoing.
Sarkozy already has two court convictions. Last month, France’s highest court confirmed a verdict against him for corruption and influence peddling over illegal attempts to secure favours from a judge. He has been ordered to wear an electronic tag for a year, a first for a former head of state. He is challenging the ruling at the European court for human rights.
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