Ex-president Sarkozy To Learn Fate In Cash-from-Libya Case
Fahad Shabbir (@FahadShabbir) Published September 24, 2020 | 10:10 AM
Paris, Sept 24 (UrduPoint / Pakistan Point News - 24th Sep, 2020 ) :A Paris appeals court will rule Thursday on a legal challenge by ex-president Nicolas Sarkozy and former aides against an investigation into claims that Libyan money was used in his 2007 election campaign.
After several delays in the case, the latest due to France's coronavirus lockdown, judges examined the application behind closed doors in June.
At that hearing, prosecutors called for the appeal to be thrown out, according to sources with information on the case.
Sarkozy has been charged over accusations by former members of Moamer Kadhafi's regime that he accepted millions from the slain Libyan dictator, some of it delivered in cash-stuffed suitcases, for his first presidential campaign in 2007.
He was charged in 2018 with taking bribes, concealing the embezzlement of Libyan public funds and illegal campaign financing.
The probe was sparked by investigative website Mediapart publishing a document in 2012 allegedly signed by Libya's intelligence chief, which purported to show that Kadhafi agreed to give Sarkozy up to 50 million Euros ($58 million at today's rates).
Sarkozy denies the charges. He maintains the document is a fake, but the courts have ruled it can be used as evidence.
Sarkozy and his former ministers Claude Gueant, Eric Woerth and Brice Hortefeux challenge the validity of the investigation on a number of procedural grounds.
All but Hortefeux are charged in the case.
The former president is also seeking to invoke head-of-state immunity on some of the counts against him.
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