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MADRID, December 17 (EUROPA PRESS) –
French prosecutors have requested a new trial against former President Nicolas Sarkozy in connection with a witness tampering plot in the case that landed him in prison last October for allegedly financing his 2007 election campaign with Libyan funds.
The agency requested that the former president be tried for criminal conspiracy and receiving stolen property in connection with witness tampering, according to a press release carried by the public channel France Info.
Likewise, he called for a trial to be held against Sarkozy’s wife, Carla Bruni, for conspiracy to commit conspiracy fraud, although he requested the former model’s partial dismissal for the second of the two crimes attributed to the former president.
The prosecution extended the request to nine other people who, according to investigators, were involved in an operation aimed at getting the late businessman Ziad Takieddine to retract, as ultimately happened, statements in which he had initially identified himself as an intermediary in the delivery of 5 million euros from the Muammar Gaddafi regime to Sarkozy’s campaign. In exchange for a sum of 600,000 euros, they sought to have the businessman disowned in the media and then through a notary in court.
The former Elysée leader, who has always denied any wrongdoing, was jailed last October for allegedly financing his campaign with funds from the regime of the late Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi. He was released after spending 20 days in the Parisian prison of La Santé, at the request of his lawyers, but with measures of judicial control.
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