Nicolas Sarkozy is alleged to have accepted money from Muammar Gaddafi Credit: Patrick Kovarik/AFP/Getty Mr Takieddine’s British ex-wife Nicola Johnson told judges she had witnessed ...

Former Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi, in Rome, August 30, 2010. ANDREAS SOLARO / AFP Nicolas Sarkozy and three former French ministers are among the defendants who have been on trial since Monday ...

Ex-French president stands trial over alleged campaign funding by Gaddafi France’s former president ... by the government of then-Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi. Sarkozy, who served as president ...

Former French President Nicolas Sarkozy has gone on trial in Paris, accused of taking millions of euros of illicit funds from the late Libyan leader Col Muammar Gaddafi to finance his 2007 ...

The former president stands accused of having, starting in 2005, entered into a "corruption pact" with Muammar Gaddafi, to facilitate the Libyan dictator's return to the international stage in ...