The Sarkozy-Gaddafi saga began in almost theatrical circumstances.

The former French President was found guilty of criminal association over a scheme to finance his election campaign between 2005 and 2007.

Former French President Nicolas Sarkozy was sentenced to five years in prison on Thursday for allegedly taking campaign funds from ex-Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi in 2007.

Nicolas Sarkozy has been found guilty of criminal conspiracy by a French court. France’s former president was accused of taking millions of euros from late Libyan strongman Muammar Gaddafi to help finance his 2007 election campaign.

Former French president Nicolas Sarkozy has been jailed for five years over a ‘criminal conspiracy’ plot involving some $50million in laundered cash from Colonel Gaddafi. Judges sitting at the Paris Correctional Court ruled that the cash from the late Libyan dictator helped Sarkozy,

The former French President was found guilty of criminal association over a scheme to finance his election campaign between 2005 and 2007.

A Paris court is to deliver its verdict Thursday over former French President Nicolas Sarkozy’s alleged illegal financing of his 2007 presidential campaign by the government of then-Libyan leader Moam