Former French leader Nicolas Sarkozy was charged twice on Friday as part of an investigation into fraudulent maneuvers aimed at clearing him of suspicion of Libyan financing of his 2007 presidential campaign, AFP has learned from a judicial source.
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According to this source, the former president (2007-2012) was indicted (indicted) for the cover-up of witness tampering, which concerns the withdrawal of his accusations against him by the French-Lebanese mediator Ziad Takieddine at the end of 2020 and the participation in a testimony of criminal association with the The aim is to commit the crime of falsifying judgments in an organized gang.
This decision paves the way for a possible new trial against the leading figure of the French right.
The interrogation came after a total of around thirty hours of interrogation over three and a half days, led by two financial judges responsible for the judicial investigation launched in May 2021 into this operation, which one of the defendants called “saving Sarkozy”.
By this accusation, the judges mean that, in their opinion, they have sufficient serious or conclusive evidence of his participation in the maneuvers, developed to varying degrees and degrees by at least nine other protagonists, possibly by giving his consent to them.
The first step of the operation would have been to obtain from the sulfur broker Ziad Takieddine the withdrawal of the allegations against Nicolas Sarkozy at the end of 2020 in exchange for possible compensation.
Then, in the first half of 2021, some of the defendants tried to obtain evidence of the telling Libyan document published by the French investigative site Mediapart between the two rounds of the 2012 presidential election and in which it was reported that financing amounted to There was talk of 50 million euros, which was a fake.