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On Friday, the Prosecutor’s Office accused former President Nicolas Sarkozy of “forming a criminal gang” in the case of Libyan financing for his electoral campaign.
Sarkozy’s accusation of forming a criminal gang is part of the investigation into the possibility that he obtained Libyan financing for his 2007 electoral campaign, according to the National Financial Prosecutor’s Office.
The accusation came after four days of interrogation sessions.
This new indictment is in addition to three other charges brought against Sarkozy in the context of the same file in March 2018.
Investigators had previously used wiretapping devices to examine separate allegations that the late Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi had financed Sarkozy’s campaign and suspected that he had accessed the details of a separate case through a network of informants.
Sarkozy held the presidency of France from 2007 to 2012, but lost the election to François Hollande when he sought re-election.
Since then, he has faced a series of investigations related to alleged crimes of corruption, fraud, favoritism and irregularities in the financing of his electoral campaign.
Sarkozy’s lawyers had previously said that judges investigating the alleged Libyan funding had exceeded their authority to eavesdrop on their conversations between September 2013 and March 2014, thereby violating the confidentiality of attorney-client communication.
