Conviction of French ex-president Sarkozy over illegal campaign funding upheld

Former French president Nicolas Sarkozy (Ludovic Marin/Pool/AP)

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.

Sarkozy was convicted in a lower court in September 2021 and sentenced to a year of house arrest for illegal campaign financing.