PARIS: Former French President Nicolas Sarkozy faces up to 10 years in prison if a Paris court convicts him of secretly using funds from the Libyan government of late dictator Muammar Qaddafi to finance his presidential campaign in 2007. The verdict is expected on Thursday. If convicted, the 70-year-old Sarkozy would be the first former French president found guilty of accepting illegal foreign funds to win office.

PARIS: Former French President Nicolas Sarkozy faces up to 10 years in prison if a Paris court convicts him of secretly using funds from the Libyan government of late dictator…

Former president and others accused of receiving millions of euros in illegal election funding from Libyan regime of Muammar Gaddafi

Nicolas Sarkozy, president from 2007-12, was found guilty of criminal conspiracy but cleared of other charges.

Paris criminal court finds Nicolas Sarkozy partly guilty in trial related to alleged campaign funds from Libya.

PARIS: A Paris court on Thursday sentenced former French President Nicolas Sarkozy to five years in prison after finding him guilty of criminal conspiracy in a scheme to finance…

El expresidente francés Nicolas Sarkozy ha sido declarado culpable de varios delitos por la financiación libia de su campaña en 2007

The former French President denies all charges in the case and has 10 days to appeal the decision in the court of appeals

A Paris court said Nicolas Sarkozy will be incarcerated even if he appeals.

Stay up to date with notifications from The IndependentNotifications can be managed in browser preferences.AllNewsSportCultureLifestyleFormer French president Nicolas Sarkozy has…

Former French President Nicolas Sarkozy sentenced to five years in prison for illegal campaign financing, plans to appeal.

Sarkozy has been handed a five-year prison sentence after trial over finances from late Libyan leader Gaddafi.

A Paris judge sentenced former French President Nicolas Sarkozy to five years in prison Thursday on criminal conspiracy charges for accepting campaign funding from former Libyan…

The former French president had been accused of receiving funds from the late dictator Muammar Gaddafi

PARIS: The dramatic decision to send former president Nicolas Sarkozy to prison for criminal conspiracy has laid bare France’s stark political divisions, with the move cheered by…