The decision to send the case to trial comes a week after Nicolas Sarkozy was charged with accepting millions of euros in funding from late Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi. Photo: ReutersParis: Former French president Nicolas Sarkozy has been ordered to stand trial for corruption and influence peddling involving a judge, from whom he tried to get information about an investigation, a legal official said Thursday. The decision to send the case to trial comes a week after the right-winger—who already faces a trial for illegal campaign financing in his 2012 re-election campaign—was charged with accepting millions of euros in funding from late Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi.

Source: Mint March 29, 2018 14:48 UTC