Overview

• The Paris court found Sarkozy guilty of allowing close aides to seek illicit funding tied to Muammar Gaddafi’s regime.
• Judges acquitted him of a separate corruption charge brought in the same proceedings.
• Prosecutors asked for a seven-year prison sentence, portraying Sarkozy as the driving force behind the alleged pact with Libya.
• Eleven others were prosecuted in the case, with convictions for former top aide Claude Guéant and ex-minister Brice Hortefeux.
• Evidence cited at trial included testimony from seven former Libyan officials, travel by Sarkozy’s aides, money transfer records, and the notebooks of ex–oil minister Shukri Ghanem.