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<\/a><\/center><\/p>\nThe New York Times<\/a> reports that Nicolas Sarkozy, former French president, has turned himself into police custody over questions about his funding sources for his campaign in 2007. One of the charges is that he received money from the late Muammar el-Qaddafi of Libya;<\/p>\n The suspicions behind this case first emerged in 2012, when the investigative news website Mediapart published a report suggesting that Mr. Sarkozy\u2019s 2007 campaign had received up to 50 million euros, or nearly $62 million at current exchange rates, from the regime of Colonel Qaddafi, the longtime Libyan strongman who was killed in 2011. Such support would have violated France\u2019s strict campaign finance laws, which cap spending and prohibit foreign funding.<\/p>\n Since those first reports, aides to Mr. Sarkozy and middlemen who knew him and who acted as political and financial intermediaries between France and Libya have come under close scrutiny by the police and the news media.<\/p>\n In 2015, Claude Gu\u00e9ant, a top aide and former interior minister to Mr. Sarkozy, was charged in connection with the investigation.<\/p>\n Ziad Takieddine, the French-Lebanese arms dealer who had introduced Mr. Sarkozy to Colonel Qaddafi, told Mediapart in 2016 that he had personally delivered suitcases with \u20ac5 million in cash to Mr. Sarkozy and Mr. Gu\u00e9ant shortly before the 2007 election. Both politicians denied the account by Mr. Takieddine, who has also been charged in the investigation.<\/p>\n In January, Alexandre Djouhri, a French businessman who is close to Mr. Sarkozy and who also acted as a financial intermediary with Libya, was arrested in London in connection with the investigation. The French authorities are seeking his extradition.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n I suppose that Sarkozy’s eagerness to bomb Qaddafi’s government troops during the civil war there was to cover up his funding. If Qaddafi did send him cash, I’m sure the colonel felt cheated, you know, right before he felt the K-Bar in his ass cheek.<\/p>\n I guess that it shouldn’t be a surprise that Sarkozy expressed support for Hillary Clinton during the 2016 US Presidential campaign, according to LePointe<\/a>; Si j’\u00e9tais citoyen am\u00e9ricain, je voterais pour Hillary.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"