00:00A Paris court found former French President Nicolas Sarkozy guilty on one charge but acquitted him on others Thursday in his trial for the alleged illegal financing of his 2007 presidential campaign with money from the government of the then Libyan leader, Muammar Gaddafi.
00:16The court is still detailing his ruling and hasn't immediately sentenced a 70-year-old Sarkozy.
00:21The former leader can appeal the guilty verdict which will suspend any sentence pending the appeal.
00:25The court found Sarkozy guilty of criminal association in a scheme from 2005 to 2007 to finance his campaign with funds from Libya in exchange for diplomatic favors.
00:36But it cleared him of three other charges including passive corruption, illegal campaign financing and concealment of the embezzlement of public funds.
00:44The accusations traced their rules to 2011 when a Libyan news agency and Gaddafi himself said the Libyan state had secretly funded millions of euros into Sarkozy's 2007 campaign.
00:55In 2012, the French investigative outlet Mediapar published what is said was a Libyan intelligence memo referencing a 50 million euro funding agreement.
01:05Sarkozy denounced the document as a forgery and sued for defamation.
01:09Sarkozy den dyed the��
01:14A
01:14THE
01:15THE
01:15THE
01:21THE
01:26THE
01:26THE
01:27THE
01:28THE
01:29THE
01:33THE
01:34THE
01:34THE
01:36THE
Comments