The former French president was sentenced to five years in prison in September after he was found guilty of seeking to acquire funding from Libya for his election campaign, but he was released after serving just 20 days.

PARIS: A Paris appeal court examined Monday the request for release of former French President Nicolas Sarkozy from prison, less than three weeks after he began serving a…

The former French president was jailed in October for conspiring to fund his election campaign with money from late Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi.