– confessed to paying kick-backs to an aide of the former French President Nicolas Sarkozy – Claims late Libyan leader Colonel Muammar Gaddafi paid up to £40m towards Mr Sarkozy’s successful 2007 presidential election bid Tom Harper Tuesday, 31 December… Read More ›
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Cash deposits of former Nicolas Sarkozy aide come under fresh scrutiny
The former Interior Minister, Claude Guéant, denies money laundering Anne Penketh Tuesday, 7 May 2013 An investigation into the alleged use of slush funds by former French President Nicolas Sarkozy in the 2007 presidential election campaign took a new twist… Read More ›
Sarkozy gave Obamas $40,000 worth of gifts in just one year
Friday, 26 April 2013 Former French President and pop singer wife Carla Bruni gave America’s first couple more than $40,000 worth of gifts in a single year, it emerged today. Presents included a designer Hermes golf bag and… Read More ›
Sarkozy’s Gaddafi campaign scandal: Police search office of French ex-Interior Minister
Published time: March 01, 2013 00:46 Nicolas Sarkozy greets Muammar Gaddafi in the courtyard of the Elysee Palace in Paris as he arrives for a five day official visit December 10, 2007. (Reuters/Jacky Naegelen) French police searched the office… Read More ›
Nicolas Sarkozy DID take $50 million of Muammar Gaddafi’s cash, French judge is told
John Lichfield Wednesday, 2 January 2013 Documentary proof exists that France’s former President Nicolas Sarkozy took more than €50m from the late Libyan dictator, Muammar Gaddafi, a French judge has been told. The claim, leaked today, was made just before… Read More ›
Nicolas Sarkozy ‘could be placed under investigation’ : Janet Napolitano, US Secretary of Homeland Security, did not deny the Elysee Palace hacking allegations
Nicolas Sarkozy faces the humiliating prospect of being placed under formal criminal investigation when he appears before a judge on Thursday to answer corruption charges. Nicolas Sarkozy is facing a number of investigations Photo: AP By Peter Allen, Paris 3:01PM… Read More ›
Francois Hollande ‘shared’ his mistress Valerie Trierweiler with Sarkozy minister
Francois Hollande “shared” his mistress Valerie Trierweiler with a minister from Nicolas Sarkozy’s government in a Jules et Jim-style relationship, a new biography on France’s first lady claims. Supposedly Mr Devedjian hesitated so much that Trierweiler let herself to be… Read More ›