One month after Nicolas Sarkozy came out of prisonjustice knocks at your door again. The National Financial Prosecutor’s Office France requested this Tuesday to prosecute the former French president and his wife, Carla Brunifor pressuring and manipulating a key witness in the case of illegal financing libya of his election campaign 2007. A case for which he was sentenced in September to five years in prison and provisionally placed behind bars for 20 days.
The accused, among whom is also Michele Marchandclose to the former president, are suspected of having tried to deceive justice using fraudulent means to exonerate Sarkozy, through the handling of one witness clue; the intermediary Ziad Takieddine He had withdrawn the accusations against the former head of state of Libyan financing of the 2007 presidential campaign. Although two months later he once again acknowledged the facts.
In the charging document issued on Tuesday, the National Prosecutor’s Office requested that Sarkozy be tried for “conspiracy to commit fraud organized” and “reception of stolen goods related to witness tampering.” In the case of his wife, the court accuses her of “conspiracy to commit organized fraud,” with a request for a partial dismissal for “receiving stolen property in connection with witness tampering.” Like Marchand, known as Mimi and very close to the Sarkozys, whom the prosecution accuses of “witness tampering” and “conspiracy to bribe people who hold judicial positions in the Lebanon“.
The couple’s legal team Sarkozy-Bruni has already submitted a request to annul the Prosecutor’s request and will have to wait for the decision of the judge in charge of the judicial process. He judgment The appeal for the illegal financing of the 2007 campaign will take place in early 2026, and will be the last bullet that would prevent the former president from returning to prison.
The witness died in September
Takieddine, a Franco-Lebanese businessman, became a key witness during the affair Libya by providing the justice system with highly relevant information that led to Sarkozy’s indictment.
During his statement in the judicial process, Takieddine declared that he had delivered five million euros in cash to Sarkozy’s entourage between 2006 and 2007. Later, he changed his version before the press, pointing out that the judge had manipulated his statement. A strange movement that raised the suspicions of the Prosecutor’s Office, which believes that the witness could have been pressed by Sarkozy’s entourage.
Takieddine died two days before the Paris Court sentenced the former head of state to five years in prison for illicit association. During the sentencing, the court considered the financing attempt to be proven, but the court was unable to justify that the money finally reached Sarkozy, which is why he was not convicted of illegal financing.
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