Sarkozy denies use of Gaddafi funding in 2007 election campaign

France’s Nicolas Sarkozy angrily denied receiving money from deposed Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi to fund his first presidential run in 2007, as one news website reported earlier yesterday.

Website Mediapart said that the Libyan regime gave €50m to Sarkozy’s campaign, citing a document being used to investigate a 2002 bombing in the Pakistani city of Karachi, which killed 11 French citizens.

The report comes just six weeks before the first round of the presidential election on Apr 22.