Former French President Nicolas Sarkozy has been hit with preliminary charges by investigative judges, accusing him of attempting to manipulate magistrates in order to clear himself in a case ...

Nicolas Sarkozy of France is accused of receiving illegal funding for his 2007 election from the government of Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi. By Aurelien Breeden Reporting from Paris Former President ...

Nicolas Sarkozy, then the president of France, with Libya’s then-leader, Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi, in 2007. Mr. Sarkozy was elected earlier that year and served until 2012.

Former French President Nicolas Sarkozy is facing serious legal trouble. French prosecutors have asked a court to sentence him to seven years in prison. They also want him to pay a fine of € ...

Nicolas Sarkozy appeared before the Paris Court of Appeal to contest the validity of a criminal investigation into Libya ... who suspect that this undeclared money is what’s left of the cash-filled ...

Sarkozy has been under investigation in the Libya case since 2013. Investigators examined claims that Gadhafi’s government secretly gave Sarkozy 50 million euros for his winning 2007 campaign.

PARIS – Former French President Nicolas Sarkozy was held in custody on Tuesday and questioned by magistrates investigating whether late Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi helped finance his 2007 e… ...

PARIS (AP) — The monthslong trial of former French President Nicolas Sarkozy over the alleged illegal financing of his 2007 presidential campaign is shedding light on France's back-channel talks ...

PARIS — Nicolas Sarkozy, the once flamboyant French president who had hoped to revive his political career, is facing a formal investigation over allegations that his 2007 campaign received ...