Faced with French justice is former French president, Nicolas Sarkozy, who is accused of in 2007, in his election campaign, he received illegal financing by the then status of Muammar Gaddafi to Libya.

The judges will issue their verdict for the largest policies funding scandal in modern French history Today, Thursday.

THE Prosecutor has proposed a 7 -year prison sentence for Sarkozywho was tried along with 12 other people – including three former ministers – on charges of criminal conspiracy to receive money from a foreign dictator. The former president, as well as the other defendants, deny the charges.

During the three -month trial in Paris, it was said that intermediary allegedly handed in on suitcases full of cash in ministerial buildings in order to fund Sarkozy’s election campaign in 2007, which was successful.

In exchange for money, according to the court, the regime her Libya asked for diplomatic, legal and business grace. It seems that Sarkozy would restore Gaddafi’s international image, prosecutors said.

The authoritarian leader of Libya, the violent 41 -year rule of which he was characterized by human rights violations, had been internationally isolated because of his regime with terrorism.

In 2007, the newly elected Sarkozy welcomed Gaddafi in Paris. He was, in fact, the first Western leader to welcome him on an official visit since the 1980s, when relations between the two countries had been frozen.

One of the persons who had “burned” Sarkozy was the Lebanese businessman Ziad Takientin, He had stated in an interview with the Mediapart research website in 2016 that he had helped to transport Gaddafi’s cash to Sarkozy’s environment. According to his claim, It was 50 million euros. However, the businessman died suddenly in Beirut a few days beforeaccording to the Guardian.

An anonymous source from the family told Agence France-Presse that Takietin was in his prison Lebanon Due to economic dispute and died in hospital after cardiac attack.

Takientine was one of their accused In the case of the illegal funding of Sarkozy’s election campaign, but he was pending an international arrest warrant against him and was tried in absentia as he had fled to his hometown, Lebanon, who does not issue his citizens.

In 2020, Takientine recalled her incriminating The deposition on the transfer of cash in cash, but shortly thereafter.

Sarkozy and his wife, Carla Bruni, as well as many more, were under official investigation with the suspicion that they had put pressure on the witness to recall. All of them denied any illegal act.