2024-07-10 01:07:00
La exprimera dama francesa Carla Bruni-Sarkozy was imputed today in the framework of an investigation on the alleged Libyan financing of her husband’s 2007 presidential campaign, Nicolas Sarkozy. The 56-year-old man was accused of hiding evidence and associating with criminals to commit fraud.
The singer, actress and model was put under judicial control and it was forbidden to have contact with all the accused, except for her husband, she said. AFP. Es sospechosa de encubrimiento de manipulation de testigos y de estar involucrada en un intento de soborno a personal judicial libanés, entre otras violations. Their lawyers, Paul Mallet and Benoit Martínez, did not comment.
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Sarkozy, 69 years old, was accused in October 2023 of illegal manipulation of witnesses, as part of an investigation on whether he accepted money from the former Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi para financier su electoral campaign de 2007. The investigators suspect that several people, some of them close to Sarkozy, were involved in paying a key witness in this case to withdraw the statement that incriminated the former president.
Bruni-Sarkozy could be charged and receive the status of “assisting witness”, lo que según el sistema jurídico francés no equivale a ser acusado formalme. The investigators ya la interrogaron dos veces: primero como testigo en June de 2023 y luego como sospechosa a principios de Mayo.
Las claves de la accusation against the Sarkozy marriage
Una investigación mostró que Bruni-Sarkozy deleted all messages exchanged with the French “queen of the paparazzi”, Michele Marchandthe day Marchand was accused of tampering with witnesses in June 2021. The authorities were interested in Bruni-Sarkozy when Marchand justified his trips to Sarkozy’s house as social visits with the singer.
Por su parte, el empresario franco-libanés Ziad Takieddine had affirmed on several occasions that he had helped deliver up to five million euros (5.4 million dollars at actual exchange rate) effectively from Muamar Gaddafi to President Sarkozy and his Chief of Cabinet in 2006 and 2007.
However, in 2020, Takieddine suddenly retracted his incriminating statementhe generated suspicions that Sarkozy and his close allies might have paid the witness to change his opinion.
Sarkozy must face trial in 2025, for the accusations that he conspired to take money from the Libyan leader to illegally finance his campaign — posteriorly victorious — in 2007 to become president of France. The right-wing politician, who governed France between 2007 and 2012, has faced a litany of legal problems since leaving office.
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