Nicolas Sarkozy / Guilty and at the Court of Appeal for illegal financing of his election campaign

Guilty too second degree the former president of France was judged, Nicolas Sarkozy regarding the case of illegality financing her election campaign this 2012.

According to Reuters, the former president of France was sentenced by the Court of Appeal in one year imprisonment. The six months in suspensionwhom you can stretch out using electronic braceletout of prison.

It is recalled that at first instance, Sarkozy was sentenced to one year in prison and the penalty of suspended because of appeal who filed.

N. Sarkozy (president of France 2007 – 2012) still denies the accusations that the Republican party he belongs to (then UMP) cooperated with public relations company by the name of Bygmalion in order to hide the actual cost her campaign of -which was marked by extravagant events that were then unprecedented for the French political scene.

During the hearing, Sarkozy rejected her responsibility in members of staff characteristically saying that “not I chose I any supplier, I didn’t sign any offer, any invoice”.

According to the same international agency, the indictment for which N. Sarkozy was found guilty states that the company issued invoices to the UMP instead of the campaign and that former president spent 42.8 million euros in his 2012 re-election campaign, how much which is almost double of permissible.