The prosecution claims Sarkozy greatly exceeded a spending limit of €22.5 million by using false billing from a public relations firm called Bygmalion.
The source said one of two judges in charge of the case had decided on 3 February that the case should go to trial after the failure of Sarkozy’s legal efforts to prevent it in December.
Executives from the company have acknowledged the existence of fraud and false accounting and the trial will focus on whether Sarkozy himself was aware of it or taking decisions about it. Questioned by police in September 2015, Sarkozy said he did not recall ever being warned about the accounting and described the controversy as a “farce.”
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Sarkozy to face trial over 2012 campaign financing
07 February 2017
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Former French president Nicolas Sarkozy is to face trial over the allegedly fraudulent financing of his doomed 2012 bid for re-election, a legal source has said.
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