Sarkozy, 69, and 12 others are now standing trial in Paris for corruption and violating French campaign finance laws. The defendants could face up to 10 years in prison and fines of up to € ...

In his exchanges with RFI, Saif al-Islam said he personally oversaw a payment of $2.5 million to Guéant, claiming that Sarkozy had offered in exchange to overturn a French arrest warrant for ...

Saif al-Islam Gaddafi, son of former Libyan autocrat Muammar Gaddafi, has told a French news network that he was personally involved in giving ex-French President Nicholas Sarkozy $5m in cash for ...

The youngest son of former Libyan dictator Moamer Kadhafi claims he was pressured to retract allegations about his country's funding of Nicolas Sarkozy's 2007 presidential campaign. In an ...

The youngest son of former Libyan dictator Moamer Kadhafi claims he was pressured to retract allegations about his country's funding of Nicolas Sarkozy's 2007 presidential campaign. In an exclusive ...

Did Nicolas Sarkozy send two lawyers to Libya to find a way to lift the international arrest warrant of Abdullah al-Senoussi, who was sentenced in absentia by a French court to life imprisonment ...

The contrast between Prefect Claude Guéant, an "administrative monk," according to Nicolas Sarkozy, and his friend Alexandre Djouhri is striking. "He's enriching, he's there, he looks austere ...

Read more Subscribers only Sarkozy's trial: The full timeline of the Libyan campaign financing case Hortefeux, the local authorities minister at the time, had gone to Libya in 2005, for "a follow ...

Former French president Nicolas Sarkozy at the Palais de Justice courthouse in Paris, on January 20, 2025. BERTRAND GUAY / AFP Grief suddenly entered the courtroom – poignant, palpable ...

Former French President Nicholas Sarkozy went on trial on Monday on charges he accepted some 50 million euros in illegal campaign financing from late Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi. Sarkozy ...

Former French president Nicolas Sarkozy, already convicted twice in separate cases since leaving office, on Monday goes on trial charged with accepting illegal campaign financing in an alleged ...