Nov. 26 (UPI) -- The highest court in France upheld a conviction Wednesday against former French President Nicolas Sarkozy for allegedly padding his campaign coffers in his failed 2012 re-election bid in a separate legal issue.
It arrived weeks after Sarkozy, 70, was released early from jail in favor of house arrest in a different case.
France's Court of Cessation sanctioned an appeal court verdict that gave Sarkozy a six-month house arrest sentence. In 2021, He was sentenced to a year in jail.
Sarkozy was France's head of state from 2007-2012.
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