In the Libya case, he is charged with illegal campaign financing, embezzling, passive corruption, and related counts. Investigators examined claims that Gadhafi’s government secretly gave Sarkozy 50 million euros for his winning in the 2007 campaign. The sum would be more than double the legal campaign funding limit at the time and would violate French rules against foreign campaign financing. After becoming president in 2007, Sarkozy welcomed Gadhafi to France with high honors later that year. In an unrelated case, Sarkozy was sentenced to a year of house arrest for illegal campaign financing of his unsuccessful 2012 reelection bid.

Source: Libya Today August 26, 2023 07:29 UTC