From French president Nicolas Sarkozy is set to stand trial in 2025, along with 12 other co-defendants, over allegations of receiving funds from the former Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi to illegally finance his victorious 2007 bid for the presidency. Sarkozy, who has faced a litany of legal problems since his one term in office, denies the Libyan allegations — the most serious he faces. The 68-year-old has already been convicted twice for corruption and influence-peddling in separate cases involving attempts to influence a judge and campaign financing. Among the others facing trial over the alleged Libyan corruption are heavyweights such as Sarkozy’s former right-hand man Claude Gueant, his then head of campaign financing Eric Woerth and former minister Brice Hortefeux. The investigation was sparked by revelations from the investigative website Mediapart which published a document purporting to show that Gaddafi agreed to give Sarkozy up to 50 million euros ($54 million at current rates).

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The French Embassy in Libya denied on Saturday reports alleging that Paris is involved in military operation in Libya. In a brief statement via X (formerly known as Twitter), the embassy described these “false information”. “The French Embassy in Libya denies the false information that has circulated in certain media and on social networks reporting French involvement in military operations in Libya،” it said in a statement. On Friday, the Libyan National Army (LNA) launched a military operation on the country’s southern border attacking Chadian armed groups which have crossed Libyan territory, according to LNA’s media office.

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In the Libya case, he is charged with illegal campaign financing, embezzling, passive corruption, and related counts. Investigators examined claims that Gadhafi’s government secretly gave Sarkozy 50 million euros for his winning in the 2007 campaign. The sum would be more than double the legal campaign funding limit at the time and would violate French rules against foreign campaign financing. After becoming president in 2007, Sarkozy welcomed Gadhafi to France with high honors later that year. In an unrelated case, Sarkozy was sentenced to a year of house arrest for illegal campaign financing of his unsuccessful 2012 reelection bid.

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The former president will be tried over allegations he took money from late Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi in 2007. Former French President Nicolas Sarkozy will be tried in 2025 over allegations he took money from late Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi to fund one of his election campaigns, prosecutors say. The trial, which prosecutors announced on Friday, is to hear evidence that Sarkozy, along with 12 co-defendants, conspired to take cash from the Libyan leader to illegally fund his victorious 2007 bid for the presidency. Sarkozy, who has faced a litany of legal problems since his one term in office, has denied the Libyan allegations – the most serious he faces. Sarkozy took a lead role in negotiating Russia’s partial withdrawal from Georgia after Moscow’s invasion there in 2008.

Civil unrest in Libya has seen ​​rival leaders forge alliances with rebel factions in neighbouring Chad and Sudan. Khalifa Haftar’s Libyan National Army (LNA) launched air strikes against “foreign armed groups” near its border with Chad. The army hit Chadian rebel positions on the Libyan side of the border before launching an airborne assault. Mismari promised the LNA would “no longer allow armed groups or factions to use Libyan territory to launch attacks against neighbouring countries”. Civil unrest in Libya for the past 12 years has seen ​​rival leaders in the country forge alliances with various rebel factions in neighbouring Chad and Sudan.

São Paulo – This Thursday (24), Arab diplomats received in the federal capital Brasília the new ambassadors of Qatar and Libya, who recently took up their posts in Brazil. A welcome dinner was promoted by the Council of Arab Ambassadors in Brazil at the Embassy of Palestine in Brasília. Paraguayan delegation with diplomatsThe new diplomats were the ambassador of Qatar, Ahmad Alshebani, and the ambassador of Libya, Osama Sawan. The Arab ambassadors also attended a meeting in Brasília this week with a delegation of congress representatives of Paraguay. Translated by Elúsio BrasileiroThe post new ambassadors of libya, qatar welcomed in brazil appeared first on agência de notícias brasil-árabe .

Among 12 others facing trial over the alleged Libyan financing are heavyweights such as Sarkozy's former right-hand man, Claude Gueant, his then-head of campaign financing, Eric Woerth, and former minister Brice Hortefeux. Takieddine had claimed he delivered three suitcases stuffed with a total of five million euros ($6.15 million) in cash in 2006 and 2007. Sarkozy took a lead role in negotiating Russia's partial withdrawal from Georgia after Russian President Vladimir Putin's invasion in 2008. Sarkozy faces a separate probe into possible potential influence-peddling after he received a payment from Russian insurance firm Reso-Garantia of three million euros in 2019 while working as a consultant. Despite his two convictions, Sarkozy currently faces no threat of going to jail and can serve his sentences by wearing an electronic bracelet.

Sarkozy, who has faced a litany of legal problems since his one term in office, denies the Libyan allegations -- the most serious he faces. The 68-year-old has already been convicted twice for corruption and influence-peddling in separate cases involving attempts to influence a judge and campaign financing. Among the others facing trial over the alleged Libyan corruption are heavyweights such as Sarkozy's former right-hand man Claude Gueant, his then head of campaign financing Eric Woerth and former minister Brice Hortefeux. Sarkozy took a lead role in negotiating Russia's partial withdrawal from Georgia after Russian President Vladimir Putin's invasion in 2008 and he and his prime minister, Francois Fillon, enjoyed friendly relations with the Kremlin leader. Sarkozy faces a separate probe into possible potential influence-peddling after he received a payment by Russian insurance firm Reso-Garantia of three million euros in 2019 while working as a consultant.

PARIS (AP) — French investigative magistrates on Friday ordered former President Nicolas Sarkozy and 12 others to go on trial on charges that his 2007 presidential campaign received millions in illegal financing from the government of late Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi. In the Libya case, he is charged with illegal campaign financing, embezzling, passive corruption and related counts. Investigators examined claims that Gadhafi’s government secretly gave Sarkozy 50 million euros for his winning 2007 campaign. The sum would be more than double the legal campaign funding limit at the time and would violate French rules against foreign campaign financing. In an unrelated case, Sarkozy was sentenced to a year of house arrest for illegal campaign financing of his unsuccessful 2012 reelection bid.