A Sarkozy aide is charged with bribery intake in election probe
Besides the former French president himself facing potential charges for accepting money from Gaddafi, one of his aides is also facing charges for bribery schemes:
Claude Gueant’s allegedly illicit schemes came to light when he was found to have withdrawn just several hundred euros in cash between 2003 and 2012, but exactly at the same period of time made an ostentatious real estate purchase in Paris.France 24 has more:
Claude Gueant, former French President Nicolas Sarkozy’s right-hand man has been charged with taking bribes, misuse of public funds and conspiracy, in the course of a probe into the financing of Sarkozy’s 2007 election campaign.
[...] Gueant earlier faced tax fraud and forgery charges over alleged 500,000 euro transfer he received in 2008 from a Malaysian company, along with a sale of a luxury villa in the French Riviera to a Libyan investment company.
Judges probing the financing of Nicolas Sarkozy's 2007 election campaign, allegedly with cash from Libyan dictator Moamer Kadhafi, charged the French ex-president's former right-hand man Monday with taking bribes.So it's not just Sarkozy himself who engaged in crooked schemes, perpetuating a culture of corruption in French politics. Even one of his former colleagues did too. Taking money from such a nasty figure, and then deposing him without ensuring somebody reliable can take Gaddafi's place, only shows him to be a very poor politician.
Claude Gueant, who was interior minister in Sarkozy's government, was also charged with misuse of public funds and conspiracy in illegal campaign financing. [...]
The inquiry was opened in 2013 after claims by several figures in Kadhafi's ousted regime that Sarkozy's campaign received cash from the dictator and his son Seif al-Islam.
It gained momentum in 2016 after Franco-Lebanese businessman Ziad Takieddine claimed to have delivered three suitcases stuffed with five million euros to Sarkozy and Gueant, then his chief of staff, in 2006 and 2007.
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