Promise to work in exchange for self-investigation
Three-year sentence including two years probation… Imprisonment seems to be avoided
Former French President Nicolas Sarkozy was sentenced to three years in prison on charges of buying a judge by a French court on the 1st. The picture shows you exiting a building in Paris in March 2013. Paris = AFP Yonhap News
After former French President Nicolas Sarkozy retired, he was sentenced to jail for bribing a judge.
According to foreign media, on the 1st (local time), a French court sentenced former President Sarkozy to three years in prison, including two years probation.
However, considering the French custom of being detained only if the sentence is imprisoned for two years or more, it is unlikely that Sarkozy will be put into prison because of this sentence.
Former President Sarkozy, who served as a conservative right-wing Republican from 2007 to 2012, said that if he provided internal secrets related to his illegal political funding investigation, he would allow him to take up a high position in the cosmetics company L’Oreal in Monaco after his retirement in return. It is a charge promised to the Supreme Court Justice at the time of Ver.
In the first place, French judicial authorities caught the situation when the former President Sarkozy was handed over a large amount of illegal political money from L’Oreal’s heiress Lillian Betancourt ahead of the 2007 presidential election. However, the suspicion was concluded not guilty, and instead, seven years later, communicating with his attorney Thierry Erzog via a cell phone under the name of his name, it was admitted guilty that he acted with Judge Ajiber to steal the investigation information.
This is not the only allegation of former President Sarkozy. It is also subject to investigation on charges of receiving back money from Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi ahead of the 2007 presidential election, and illegally raising funds for the presidential election by forging receipts in the 2012 presidential election.
He challenged re-election in 2012 and was defeated by Socialist candidate François Hollande. He challenged again in the 2017 presidential election, but failed to pass the Republican primary.
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