A trial has opened of France’s former President Nicolas Sarkozy and 11 co-defendants over alleged illegal financing of his 2007 presidential campaign by the government of then-Libyan leader Moammar Ga ...

Former French President Nicolas Sarkozy has gone on trial in Paris, accused of taking millions of euros of illicit funds from the late Libyan leader Col Muammar Gaddafi to finance his 2007 election ...

PARIS (Reuters) - A defiant Nicolas Sarkozy told a Paris court on Thursday ... not a single cent of Libyan cash would ever be found in his campaign. Sarkozy, who was president of France from 2007 to ...

PARIS (Reuters) -Former French president Nicolas Sarkozy went on trial on Monday ... Financial prosecutors say that in 2005, Sarkozy, then France's interior minister, brokered a deal with Gaddafi, to ...

PARIS -- France’s former President Nicolas Sarkozy goes on trial Monday over allegations he received millions from Libya for his 2007 successful presidential campaign, in the latest — and ...

Former President of France Nicolas Sarkozy arrived in court in Paris on Monday, January 6, to stand trial over accusations of illegal financing of an electoral campaign during the 2007 ...

Former French president Nicolas Sarkozy, convicted twice in separate cases since leaving ... The new trial is starting barely half a month after France's top appeals court on December 18 rejected his ...

Muammar Gaddafi’s son has told FRANCE 24’s sister radio RFI that he was personally involved in giving former French president ...

Nicolas Sarkozy has denied allegations he received campaign funding ... of cash from Libyan officials to the French Interior Ministry. Sarkozy, who was president of France from 2007 to 2012, has ...

Nicolas Sarkozy, who ruled France as a tough-talking right-wing president from 2007 to 2012, is seen by supporters as a dynamic saviour of his country but by detractors as a vulgar populist mired in ...

France’s former President Nicolas Sarkozy goes on trial Monday over alleged illegal financing of his 2007 presidential campaign by the government of late Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi. PARIS — ...

PARIS (AP) — France’s former President Nicolas Sarkozy goes on trial Monday over allegations he received millions from Libya for his 2007 successful presidential campaign, in the latest — and biggest ...