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Charges and trial loom as Gaddafi-Sarkozy funding investigations draw to a close

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.  

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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.

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