{"id":36299,"date":"2025-11-26T23:26:21","date_gmt":"2025-11-26T17:41:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/?p=36299"},"modified":"2025-11-26T23:26:21","modified_gmt":"2025-11-26T17:41:21","slug":"frances-top-court-upholds-ex-president-sarkozys-second-conviction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/frances-top-court-upholds-ex-president-sarkozys-second-conviction\/","title":{"rendered":"France’s top court upholds ex-president Sarkozy’s second conviction"},"content":{"rendered":"
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France’s highest court ruled against ex-president Nicolas Sarkozy Wednesday over illegal financing of his 2012 re-election bid, the second definitive conviction for the former head of state.<\/p>\n

The Court of Cassation upheld the ruling of an appeals court last year and said Sarkozy, a one-term president from 2007 to 2012, was therefore “definitively convicted”.<\/p>\n

The appeals court had ordered he serve a six-month term with an electronic bracelet, plus another six months suspended.<\/p>\n

Prosecutors argued Sarkozy’s right-wing party worked with a public relations firm, Bygmalion, to hide the true cost of his 2012 electoral campaign.<\/p>\n

They said he spent nearly 43 million euros (almost $50 million) on his 2012 campaign, nearly double the permitted amount of 22.5 million euros.<\/p>\n

Unlike his co-defendants, he was not implicated in the double-billing system allegedly used to cover costs but was held accountable as the beneficiary of illegal campaign financing.<\/p>\n

Sarkozy has denied “any criminal responsibility”, denouncing the allegations as “lies”.<\/p>\n

The former president has faced a series of legal challenges since leaving office.<\/p>\n

In December last year he exhausted his last legal recourse in another case over trying to extract favours from a judge, and served time with an electronic bracelet.<\/p>\n

In yet another, he is awaiting an appeal over allegedly seeking Libyan funding for his successful 2007 campaign, after spending 20 days in jail after the first ruling of a lower court.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

France’s highest court ruled against ex-president Nicolas Sarkozy Wednesday over illegal financing of his 2012 re-election bid, the second definitive conviction for the former head of state. The Court of Cassation upheld the ruling of an appeals court last year and said Sarkozy, a one-term president from 2007 to 2012, was therefore “definitively convicted”. The […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":33491,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36299","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36299"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36299"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36299\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36300,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36299\/revisions\/36300"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33491"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36299"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36299"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36299"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}