Overview

• The Paris criminal court is due to announce its decision on Thursday, September 25, at 10 a.m. local time.
• French-Lebanese intermediary Ziad (Siad) Takieddine, 75, died Tuesday in Beirut, according to his lawyer, and reports said his death is not expected to alter the case’s conclusion.
• Takieddine had claimed he delivered up to €5 million in cash from Muammar al-Gaddafi to Nicolas Sarkozy and his then–chief of staff in 2006–2007 before retracting the allegation in 2020.
• Prosecutors have requested seven years in prison, a €300,000 fine and a five-year ban from holding office, while Sarkozy denies charges that include illegal campaign financing, corruption and embezzlement, which carry a maximum of ten years.
• The case draws on confirmations from more than a dozen Libyan officials, including Gaddafi, and involves twelve additional defendants, among them former ministers.