Sarkozy will take the case to France’s highest court, his lawyer told reporters. Sarkozy, who was president from 2007 to 2012, faced several legal cases.
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Former French President Nicolas Sarkozy was found guilty of illegal campaign financing by the Paris Court of Appeal, which sentenced him to a year in prison, half of which was suspended.
The court found that Sarkozy had spent 42.8 million euros ($45.9 million) on his presidential campaign in 2012, while the maximum allowable amount in France at the time was 22.5 million euros, Xinhua news agency reported.
According to the French press, a system of double invoicing was set up to conceal the massive overruns.
Sarkozy “undoubtedly benefited from frauds that gave him far greater means than those authorized by law. However, “the investigation did not establish that he ordered them, or that he participated in them or even That he was informed about them.
Sarkozy will take the case to France’s highest court, his lawyer told reporters. Sarkozy, who was president from 2007 to 2012, faced several legal cases.
A trial is scheduled to begin in 2025 on charges that he accepted money from Libya for his 2007 campaign. In 2021 a court sentenced him to three years in prison for “corruption and influence peddling”, including two suspended. He denied any wrongdoing and the appeals court upheld the original verdict in 2023.
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