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French ex-president Sarkozy sentenced to 5 years in prison
A Paris court on Thursday sentenced former president Nicolas Sarkozy to five years of prison for accepting illegal campaign funds from late Libyan strongman MuammarContinue Reading
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The court found Sarkozy guilty of criminal association in a scheme from 2005 to 2007 to finance his campaign with funds from Libya in exchange for diplomatic favours. Sarkozy sat in the front row of the defendant's seats. Sarkozy, who was president of France from 2007 to 2012, has already been convicted in two separate cases and stripped of France's highest honour.
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- Carla Bruni-Sarkozy2
- Nicolas Sarkozy2
- Ziad Takieddine2
- Col Muammar Gaddafi.The
- Col Muammar Gaddafi
- Muammar Gaddafi.The
- Saif al-Islam
- Gaddafi
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- Paris appeals court
- Criminal Court
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- France2
- Libya2
- Middle East
- Lebanon
- Tripoli
- Beirut
- Paris
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- french2
- muammarcontinue
- conspiracy
- president
- sentenced
- strongman
- former
- guilty
- prison
- found
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