Overview
- The court said the conspiracy dated to 2005–2007 and found Sarkozy allowed senior aides to seek financial backing from Libya.
- Judges acquitted him of receiving stolen public funds and bribery and said there was no illegal financing of his 2007 campaign.
- Prosecutors sought a seven-year prison term, and any appeal would likely suspend enforcement.
- Sarkozy has repeatedly denied wrongdoing and argues the case is politically motivated.
- A separate corruption and influence‑peddling conviction was upheld last year, resulting in an electronic‑monitoring order that was later lifted.