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Nicolas Sarkozy
President of France from 2007 to 2012
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Nicolas Paul Stéphane Sarközy de Nagy-Bocsa (sar-KOH-zee; French:[nikɔlapɔlstefansaʁkɔzidənaʒibɔksa]ⓘ; born 28 January 1955) is a French politician who served as President of France from 2007 to 2012. In 2021, he was found guilty of having tried to bribe a judge in 2014 to obtain information and spending beyond legal campaign funding limits during his 2012 re-election campaign.[1][2]
Born in Paris, his roots are 1/2 Hungarian Protestant, 1/4 Greek Jewish, and 1/4 French Catholic. Mayor of Neuilly-sur-Seine from 1983 to 2002, he was Minister of the Budget under Prime Minister Édouard Balladur (1993–1995) during François Mitterrand's second term. During Jacques Chirac's second presidential term, he served as Minister of the Interior and as Minister of Finances. He was the leader of the Union for a Popular Movement (UMP) party from 2004 to 2007.
He won the 2007 French presidential
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France's Nicolas Sarkozy: 'Bling' and legal woes
He was sentenced to three years in jail - two of them suspended - for influence peddling and violation of professional secrecy.
A court found him guilty of trying to bribe a magistrate for information into an investigation into his campaign finances - both the magistrate and Sarkozy's lawyer were sentenced alongside him.Police had recorded secret phone calls where Sarkozy was reportedly heard telling his lawyer Thierry Herzog:"I'll get him promoted, I'll help him."
Last year, a Paris appeals court ruled that he could serve his time at home wearing a tag instead of going to jail.
He has also appealed against a February 2024 ruling which found him guilty of overspending on his 2012 re-election campaign, and hiring a PR firm to cover it up. He was handed a one-year sentence, of which six months were suspended.
The latest case stems from an investigation first launched in 2013.
Gaddafi's son had two years earlier accused Sarkozy of taking millions of euros of his father's money fo
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Nicolas Sarkozy goes on trial over alleged Gaddafi election funding
The investigation was opened in 2013, two years after Saif al-Islam, son of the then-Libyan leader, first accused Sarkozy of taking millions of his father's money for campaign funding.
The following year, Lebanese businessman Ziad Takieddine - who for a long time acted as a middleman between France and the Middle East - said he had written proof that Sarkozy's campaign bid was "abundantly" financed by Tripoli, and that the €50m (£43m) worth of payments continued after he became president.
Twelve other people - accused of devising the pact with Gaddafi - are standing trial along Sarkozy. They all deny the charges.
Sarkozy's wife, Italian-born former supermodel and singer Carla Bruni-Sarkozy, was charged last year with hiding evidence linked to the Gaddafi case and associating with wrongdoers to commit fraud, both of which she denies.
Since losing his re-election bid in 2012, Sarkozy has been targeted by several criminal investigations.
He also appealed against a February 2024 ruli
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