A court in France on Thursday sentenced former French president Nicolas Sarkozy to five years in prison after finding him guilty of criminal conspiracy in his trial over accusations the late Libyan dictator Moamer Kadhafi helped fund his 2007 presidential camapign.

Nicolas Sarkozy, former president of France, was sentenced to five years in prison over a plot to fund his election bid with help from the government of Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi.

A Paris court will rule this week whether former French president Nicolas Sarkozy accepted illegal campaign financing from late Libyan dictator Moamer Kadhafi, after his key accuser died on Tuesday in Beirut.

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