An appeals court in Paris on Wednesday upheld a guilty verdict against former French president Nicolas Sarkozy for illegal campaign financing in his failed 2012 re-election bid.

French investigative judges have filed preliminary charges against former president Nicolas Sarkozy for his alleged involvement in an attempt to mislead magistrates in a case regarding the suspected illegal financing from Libya of his 2007 ...

French prosecutors are seeking to send former president Nicolas Sarkozy and 12 others to trial on charges that his 2007 presidential campaign received millions in illegal financing from the government of late Libyan leader, Muammar Gaddafi.

Former French president Nicolas Sarkozy, who has been convicted and sentenced to one year of house arrest for illegal campaign financing of his unsuccessful 2012 re-election bid, will appeal the ruling, his lawyer has said.

Former French president Nicolas Sarkozy has been found guilty of illegal campaign financing of his unsuccessful 2012 re-election bid. Sarkozy was not present at the Paris court for the verdict’s announcement.

The trial of former French president Nicolas Sarkozy on charges that his unsuccessful 2012 re-election bid was illegally financed has formally started.Sarkozy, 66, is facing allegations that he spent almost twice the maximum legal amount of 22.5 ...

A Paris court has found French former president Nicolas Sarkozy guilty of corruption and influence peddling and sentenced him to one year in prison and a two-year suspended sentence

The verdict is expected in a landmark corruption and influence-peddling trial which could see former French president Nicolas Sarkozy handed a prison sentence if he is convicted.

The corruption trial of former French president Nicolas Sarkozy was suspended after less than two hours to allow for a medical report on one of the defendants.

Former French president Nicolas Sarkozy is going on trial on charges of corruption and influence peddling, a first for the 65-year-old politician who has faced several other judicial investigations since leaving office in 2012.

Former French president Nicolas Sarkozy is going on trial on charges of corruption and influence peddling, a first for the 65-year-old politician who has faced several other judicial investigations since leaving office in 2012.

Former French president Nicolas Sarkozy wants authorities to drop an investigation into alleged illegal financing of his 2007 campaign by the regime of late Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi, after a central accuser backtracked on claims that he had ...

Nicolas Sarkozy said he would impose a nationwide ban on burkinis if elected back to the presidency in 2017, positioning himself as a strong defender of French values and a leader tough on immigration.