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Ex-President stands trial for corruption
By Nicolas Vaux-Montagny And Sylvie Corbet
The Associated Press
Mon., Nov. 23, 2020
PARIS - Former French President Nicolas Sarkozy goes on trial Monday on charges of corruption and influence peddling in a phone-tapping scandal ...
Sarkozy is being accused of having tried to illegally obtain information from a magistrate about an investigation involving him in 2014.
He stands trial in a Paris court along with his lawyer Thierry Herzog, 65, and the magistrate, Gilbert Azibert, 73 ...
Sarkozy and Herzog are suspected of promising Azibert a job in Monaco in exchange for leaking information about an investigation into suspected illegal financing of the 2007 presidential campaign by France’s richest woman, L’Oreal heiress Liliane Bettencourt ...
https://www.thestar.com/news/world/europe/2020/11/23/french-ex-president-sarkozy-stands-trial-for-corruption.html
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