Gueant has not denied tapping into a special cash fund that was intended for police work in 2002-2004, but said he did not consider the acts illegal.
Monday’s decision tightened a lower court’s ruling in November, when Gueant received a suspended sentence and was fined €75,000. Gueant became Sarkozy’s chief of staff when he was elected president in 2007 and became interior minister under Sarkozy in 2011.
Ex-Sarkozy aide Gueant handed jail sentence for pocketing police fund cash
24 January 2017
Read: 1252
Nicolas Sarkozy’s former top aide Claude Gueant has been handed a two-year sentence, one year in prison and the other suspended, for embezzlement of a police fund, RIA Novosti reports.
-1780923278.jpg&h=190&w=280&zc=1&q=100)
