{"id":15849,"date":"2025-03-28T02:37:18","date_gmt":"2025-03-28T02:37:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/prosecutors-seek-7-year-sentence-for-sarkozy-in-qaddafi-money-case\/"},"modified":"2025-03-28T02:37:18","modified_gmt":"2025-03-28T02:37:18","slug":"prosecutors-seek-7-year-sentence-for-sarkozy-in-qaddafi-money-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/prosecutors-seek-7-year-sentence-for-sarkozy-in-qaddafi-money-case\/","title":{"rendered":"Prosecutors Seek 7-Year Sentence for Sarkozy in Qaddafi Money Case"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- ItShrt World News -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"1882483372\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-0\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">French prosecutors requested a seven-year prison sentence against former President <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/topic\/person\/nicolas-sarkozy\" title=\"\">Nicolas Sarkozy<\/a> on Thursday, in a trial over accusations that his 2007 campaign received illegal financing from the Libyan government of Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Such a sentence would be unprecedented in modern French history for a former president.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Mr. Sarkozy, a conservative politician who led France from 2007 to 2012, has repeatedly denied any wrongdoing, and judges at the Paris court <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/01\/06\/world\/europe\/nicolas-sarkozy-france-libya.html?searchResultPosition=1\" title=\"\">where he has been on trial since January<\/a> may or may not follow the prosecution\u2019s request if he is found guilty. His lawyers are expected to lay out their closing arguments next month, and the court is expected to defer its verdict to a later date.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The severity of the sentence request showed that the Libya case is <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/03\/23\/world\/europe\/nicolas-sarkozy.html?searchResultPosition=19\" title=\"\">a far more serious threat<\/a> to Mr. Sarkozy\u2019s legacy than his many other legal entanglements, some of which have already <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2021\/09\/30\/world\/europe\/france-sarkozy-campaign-spending.html\" title=\"\">resulted in convictions<\/a>. In addition to prison time, prosecutors also requested that Mr. Sarkozy, 70, pay a fine of 300,000 euros, or about $340,000; that he be barred from running for office, and that he be stripped of certain civic rights.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Mr. Sarkozy, who no longer holds public office but retains <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2023\/08\/27\/world\/europe\/former-french-president-voice-russia.html\" title=\"\">some political influence<\/a>, lashed out against the sentencing recommendations on Thursday, saying in a <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/nicolassarkozy\/posts\/pfbid0QjoRrB7o71m2rLcWGCkACbwUPJVoJzH3AoCBHcii8XcH2wMfq584hMKQRq88zCUfl\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">statement<\/a> on social media that the \u201cfalseness and violence of the accusations and the outrageousness of the sentence demanded\u201d aimed to \u201cmask the weakness\u201d of the prosecution\u2019s case.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-1\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The Libya case is <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/03\/23\/world\/europe\/nicolas-sarkozy.html?searchResultPosition=19\" title=\"\">sprawling, convoluted and explosive<\/a>, involving accusations that Mr. Sarkozy\u2019s campaign illegally accepted funding from Mr. el-Qaddafi, the former Libyan strongman who was killed by opposition fighters in 2011.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-2\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Mr. Sarkozy is facing charges of illegal campaign financing, criminal conspiracy, concealing the misappropriation of public funds and passive corruption (a charge that applies to people suspected of receiving money or favors).<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Over the past few days, prosecutors who specialize in financial crimes depicted Mr. Sarkozy as the key decision maker in an \u201cunthinkable, unprecedented, obscene corruption pact\u201d with the Qaddafi government, involving a complex web of political and financial ties between Mr. Sarkozy\u2019s advisers, Libyan officials and businessmen or bankers who acted as intermediaries.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Twelve other people are also <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2023\/08\/25\/world\/europe\/sarkozy-trial-france-libya-corruption.html?searchResultPosition=10\" title=\"\">standing trial<\/a> on similar charges, and prosecutors have requested sentences ranging from one to six years in prison and fines of up to four million euros.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-3\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Since 1945, only one other former French head of state has been found guilty by a court of law: <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2019\/09\/26\/obituaries\/jacques-chirac-dead.html\" title=\"\">Jacques Chirac<\/a>, who was <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2011\/12\/16\/world\/europe\/chirac-found-guilty-in-political-funding-case.html?searchResultPosition=2\" title=\"\">convicted in 2011<\/a> of a less striking form of corruption, misusing public funds when he was mayor of Paris, and was given a suspended sentence.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Mr. Sarkozy has faced multiple accusations of financial impropriety since he left office, although that has done little to dent his popularity with the base of his conservative party or to prevent his <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.lemonde.fr\/en\/france\/article\/2023\/08\/22\/nicolas-sarkozy-s-selective-memory_6103063_7.html\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">memoirs<\/a> from <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.france24.com\/en\/20200814-sarkozy-s-love-story-memoirs-top-french-bestseller-list\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">flying off the shelves<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Some of the cases have been <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2013\/10\/08\/world\/europe\/french-judges-drop-sarkozy-investigation.html\" title=\"\">dropped<\/a>. But in 2021, he was <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2021\/03\/01\/world\/europe\/france-sarkozy-trial-guilty.html?searchResultPosition=15\" title=\"\">convicted<\/a> of trying to obtain information from a judge about a court case against him and is currently serving one year under a form of house arrest with an electronic bracelet.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">He was also <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2021\/09\/30\/world\/europe\/france-sarkozy-campaign-spending.html\" title=\"\">convicted<\/a> in 2021 for illegally financing his <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2012\/05\/07\/world\/europe\/hollande-and-sarkozy-in-crucial-runoff-in-france.html\" title=\"\">unsuccessful 2012 re-election<\/a> campaign, which wildly exceeded France\u2019s spending limits. That case is <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2024\/02\/14\/world\/europe\/nicolas-sarkozy-verdict.html?searchResultPosition=7\" title=\"\">still going through the appeals process<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- ItShrt World News -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"1882483372\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/03\/27\/world\/europe\/nicolas-sarkozy-libya-qaddafi.html\">Source link 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