FORMER FRENCH PRESIDENT SARKOZY FACES JAIL OVER CORRUPTION AND INFLUENCE PEDDLING CHARGES
March 1st, 2021
Former French President Nicholas Sarkozy was sentenced to three years in prison on Monday, March 1, with two years suspended, for corruption and influence peddling. Sarkozy, President between May 2007 and May 2012, was convicted in the 32nd chamber Criminal Court of Paris alongside his former lawyer Thierry Herzog and magistrate Gilbert Azibert, for participating in what presiding judge Christine Mée said was a “corruption pact”. In 2014 Sarkozy promised Azibert a prestigious job in Monaco in return for access to police wiretap tapes linked to an ...
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