Nicolas Sarkozy has been jailed for five years for conspiring to finance his 2007 presidential campaign using funds from Muammar Gaddafi, the late Libyan dictator.

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,

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 Moammar Gadhafi.