صحافة بلادي صحيفة إلكترونية مغاربية متجددة على مدار الساعة تعنى بشؤون المغرب الجزائر ليبيا موريتانيا تونس
Libya –The alleged Libyan financing file for the presidential campaign of former French President Nicolas Sarkozy has returned to the forefront of political and judicial controversy in France, after the Libyan authorities demanded financial compensation amounting to 10 million euros during the ongoing appeal sessions before the French judiciary.
The Libyan State Defense Authority demanded that Sarkozy and a number of officials and mediators following the case be obligated to pay material and moral compensation, considering that the money that left Libya during the year 2006 caused direct damage to the Libyan state and the Libyan people.
The case revolves around financial transfers suspected of being transferred from official Libyan institutions to accounts linked to the French-Lebanese mediator Ziad Takieddine, as investigators believe that these funds were secretly used to support Sarkozy’s election campaign in 2007.
Libya demanded more than 4.9 million euros in material compensation, in addition to 5 million euros in moral compensation, considering that the case caused damage to the image of the Libyan state and its public funds during the rule of the late Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi.
On the other hand, the French judiciary had previously rejected, in the first instance, the compensation request submitted by Libya, considering that officials from the previous Libyan regime were parties to the facts related to the case, and not direct victims of it.
The file includes prominent political and financial names, including former French Interior Ministers Claude Guéant and Brice Ortoufou, in addition to businessman Alexandre Johari and other officials and intermediaries whose names have been linked to the ongoing investigations.
This case is considered one of the most sensitive judicial files in France in recent years, given the suspicions it raises about foreign political financing and the relations of former French officials with the Libyan regime before its fall.
Source:“My press”
