Active investigations in a mammoth and unprecedented nine-year judicial probe into the suspected illegal funding of former French president Nicolas Sarkozy’s 2007 election campaign by the regime of late Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi drew to a close this month, leading to a second legal phase before charges are brought and a trial ordered. Fabrice Arfi and Karl Laske detail the principal conclusions of the investigations and the roles of the key suspects in this extraordinary and complex case.
The active investigations in an unprecedented nine-year judicial probe into the suspected illegal funding by the Gaddafi regime of former French president Nicolas Sarkozy’s 2007 election campaign drew to a close this month, leading to a second legal phase before charges can be brought and a trial ordered.
