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 source said Thursday. According to prosecutors, Sarkozy's lawyer tried to get information from judge Gilbert Azibert over the status of a campaign financing investigation. In that inquiry, Sarkozy was suspected of accepting illicit payments from the L'Oreal heiress Liliane Bettencourt for his 2007 presidential campaign. Love lost: Sarkozy was last week charged with passive bribery, illegal campaign financing and receiving £4.35million of Libyan public funds from Muammar Gaddafi. 'I will prove (ex-) President Sarkozy innocent.

Source: Daily Mail March 29, 2018 14:40 UTC