Nicolas Sarkozy dismissed the Libyan allegations as 'grotesque' – AFPCAIRO – 21 March 2018: Former French president Nicolas Sarkozy was taken into police custody pending investigation over allegations of receiving millions of euros in an illegal election campaign funding from late Libyan president Muammar Gaddafi’s regime. A document written in Arabic and signed by Col Gaddafi’s intelligence chief Moussa Koussa refers to an agreement to support the campaign for the candidate for the presidential elections, Nicolas Sarkozy, for a sum equivalent to €50 million. Such a sum would be more than double the legal campaign funding limit, which was €21 million at the time, the Guardian reported. As French investigators have finished questioning Sarkozy, judges are now considering whether to open a formal investigation into allegations. The leaked document, published by French website Mediapart in 2012The document included that a meeting, held on 6 October 2006, was attended by Brice Hortefeux, who served as Sarkozy’s interior minister and Franco-Lebanese businessman, Ziad Takieddine.

Source: Egypt Today March 21, 2018 19:07 UTC