{"id":30083,"date":"2025-11-28T05:34:47","date_gmt":"2025-11-28T10:34:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/?p=30083"},"modified":"2025-11-28T05:34:47","modified_gmt":"2025-11-28T10:34:47","slug":"nicolas-sarkozy-illegal-campaign-financing-conviction-upheld","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/2025\/11\/28\/nicolas-sarkozy-illegal-campaign-financing-conviction-upheld\/","title":{"rendered":"Nicolas Sarkozy illegal campaign financing conviction upheld"},"content":{"rendered":"
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France’s highest court has upheld a sentence against former French President Nicolas Sarkozy over the illegal financing of his 2012 re-election campaign.<\/b><\/p>\n

He was found guilty of overspending on his campaign, then hiring a PR firm named Bygmalion to cover it up.<\/p>\n

Sarkozy, 70, was handed the one-year sentence in 2024 of which six months were suspended, meaning they could be served by wearing an electronic tag instead of going to jail.<\/p>\n

He has always denied all allegations.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Prosecutors in the case said Sarkozy’s UMP party spent nearly double the \u20ac22.5m (\u00a319.4m) cap on his campaign, splurging on lavish campaign rallies and events.<\/p>\n

To hide the costs, UMP then asked Bygmalion to invoice the party, rather than the campaign.<\/p>\n

Today’s is the second definitive conviction for the former president, who was in power from 2007 to 2012.<\/p>\n

Last December the High Court of Appeal upheld a corruption conviction and Sarkozy had to wear an electronic monitoring bracelet for six months.<\/p>\n

Then, in September, he was sentenced to five years in jail after being found guilty of criminal conspiracy.<\/p>\n

He spent 20 days in jail before he was released earlier in November.<\/p>\n

An appeal trial will be held next year. Until then Sarkozy will be subject to strict judicial supervision and barred from leaving France.<\/p>\n

Days after his release, Sarkozy’s team announced the former president was writing a book about his three weeks in jail, titled “A prisoner’s diary”.<\/p>\n

An excerpt from the book was published on social media: “In prison there is nothing to see, and nothing to do. I forget the silence that does not exist at La Sant\u00e9 [prison], where there is much to listen to. Here, the noise is, unfortunately, constant. But – like in the desert – inner life strengthens in jail.”<\/p>\n

Source: bbc.co.uk<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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