Former French president Nicolas Sarkozy arrested

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Former French President Nicolas Sarkozy has been taken into police custody for questioning over allegations that he received campaign funding from the late Libyan leader Col Muammar Gaddafi.

Police are investigating alleged irregularities over the financing of his 2007 presidential campaign.
Police have questioned him previously as part of the probe. Mr Sarkozy has denied any wrongdoing.
The centre-right politician failed to return to power in 2012.

Judicial sources said he was being questioned in Nanterre, a suburb in western Paris.

In 2013 France opened an investigation into allegations that his campaign had benefited from illicit funds from Gaddafi.

The sources said one of Mr Sarkozy's former ministers and a close ally, Brice Hortefeux, was also being questioned by police on Tuesday. (BBC)

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voter Tuesday, 20 March 2018 05:56 PM

This will never happen in SL. Here its the norm.

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Park Tuesday, 20 March 2018 06:00 PM

Can any one of us imagine this happening in Sri Lanka due to the prevailing justice system?

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Wednesday, 21 March 2018 02:12 PM

..prevaling friendship large.

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raj Tuesday, 20 March 2018 06:03 PM

Could such a thing ever happen in SL?

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Dhaya Tuesday, 20 March 2018 06:29 PM

Democracy works there and we keep voting for such people and complain.

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