Furthermore, Sarkozy will not be able to hold public office for three years and will also lose the right to vote. “Sarkozy risked appealing and was wrong to bet”. According to De Vries it is a ‘complicated case that came to light during an investigation into another case of corruption in which Sarkozy was involved, according to the Ministry of Justice’. And this is another case where he was ultimately not prosecuted.
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Sarkozy sought information from a judge about a bribery case involving a phone he had bought under a pseudonym. In exchange for that information, the judge would be offered a good job. “His lawyer he and this judge who tried to bribe were punished for the same crimes.”
But this is only one of three criminal cases currently pending against Sarkozy. “In another, he has already been sentenced to a year in prison. It was last year, he appealed against that too ».
De Vries calls the third case far more remarkable. This is around 50 million euros that Nicolas Sarkozy allegedly received from former Libyan dictator Moammar Gaddafi in 2007 for his campaign, mostly in cash. Sarkozy risks a 10-year prison sentence in that case. Sarkozy is still attractive.