Former French president Sarkozy guilty of criminal conspiracy in Libyan campaign financing trial – Europe live

Nicolas Sarkozy has been found guilty of criminal conspiracy, but not other charges, in case surrounding millions of euros in illegal campaign funding from late Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi

Here is a bit more on that from Reuters:

Sarkozy, who has always denied the charges, was accused of making a deal with Gaddafi in 2005, when he was France’s interior minister, to obtain campaign financing in exchange for supporting the then-isolated Libyan government on the international stage.

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