Court upholds sentence of former French President Sarkozy

The Court of Cassation of France upheld the sentence of former President Nicolas Sarkozy on charges of corruption and influence peddling. This was reported by Reuters on December 18.

The former head of state in 2021 appealed against the verdict, on which he was given a three-year prison term. It is specified that two years were postponed.

"Sarkozy will wear an electronic tracking bracelet instead of going to prison for the final year," the material says.

Sarkozy was indicted twice in October 2023 in a 2007 campaign finance case. The trial itself on the case of financing of ex-Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi's presidential campaign Sarkozy 2007 should be held in 2025. In May this year, the ex-president's wife, singer and model Carla Bruni, was summoned to testify.

In the spring of 2018, the former interpreter of Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi, Miftah Missouri, reported Gaddafi's financing of Sarkozy's election campaign.

In May 2023, a Paris appeals court upheld a previous instance's ruling in the "wiretapping case" that sentenced Sarkozy to three years in prison, two of which were suspended. The case is based on intercepted conversations between the former president and his former lawyer Thierry Erzog, in which Sarkozy allegedly asked to help former Constitutional Court judge Gilbert Azibert get a prestigious post in Monaco, and in exchange tried to get information about the investigation into the illegal financing of his presidential campaign in 2012.