LeMonde: Libyan financing of the 2007 campaign: Nicolas Sarkozy in custody - The former President of the Republic is currently held on the premises of the judicial police in Nanterre on the suspicion of illicit financing that weighs on his successful campaign of 2007.
In November 2016, in the middle of the party Republicans , the intermediary Ziad Takieddine claimed to have transported 5 million euros in cash from Tripoli in Paris between late 2006 and early 2007 before handing them to Claude Gueant and Nicolas Sarkozy , then Minister of the Interior. Indicted since for "complicity in bribery of foreign public official" and "complicity in misappropriation of public funds in Libya", these remarks confirmed those held on September 20, 2012 by Abdallah Senoussi, the former director of military intelligence of the country. Libyan regime before the Prosecutor General of the Libyan National Transitional Council.
But that's not all. The books of former Libyan oil minister Choukri Ghanem, who died in 2012 in still-troubled circumstances, recovered by French justice , also mention the existence of payments to Nicolas Sarkozy. Bechir Saleh, the former grand financier of Gaddafi and a man of relations with France , recently wounded by gunfire during an attack in Johannesburg, had also told Le Monde : "Gaddafi said he had financed Sarkozy. Sarkozy said he had not been funded. I believe more Gaddafi than Sarkozy. "