A former executive of European aerospace giant Airbus has been placed under investigation for alleged corruption, criminal conspiracy and money laundering by French magistrates probing the suspected illegal funding of Nicolas Sarkozy’s 2007 presidential election campaign by the regime of the late Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi. The move centres on secret payments made to a business intermediary close to the former French president. Fabrice Arfi and Karl Laske report.
A former executive with the European aerospace giant Airbus has been placed under formal investigation in France for corruption, criminal conspiracy and money laundering in the latest development of a judicial investigation into the suspected illegal Libyan funding of former French president Nicolas Sarkozy’s 2007 presidential election campaign, Mediapart can reveal.
