Former French President Nicolas Sarkozy to the court for financing his presidential campaign case
The former French President Nicolas Sarkozy has lost an attempt to avoid his trial on charges of exceeding the legal limit on campaign spending in 2012 when he failed to win a second term presidency.
Paris resumption court rejected Sarkozy’s (63) a resumption request against the court order issued in February last year to put him on trial, according to a judicial source.
Investigators accused Sarkozy of spending more than 20 million Euros (22.8 million dollars) in addition to the maximum allowable amount of 22.5 million Euros under French law.
Sarkozy’s lawyer, Terry Herzog, told the press he would appeal against the court decision again before the cessation court.
This is the second hurdle in weeks of the former conservative president, who faces three separate cases.
Earlier this month, the resumption court rejected a plea by Sarkozy for an indictment prepared by prosecutors for corruption and abuse of power in a second case.
A further appeal filed against a trial order in that case is also pending.
Sarkozy is also under formal investigation in another corruption case, where he is suspected of receiving illegal campaign funding from the regime of the late Libyan Colonel Muammar Gaddafi.
Sarkozy has strongly denied the charges.
Sarkozy took over France’s presidency for one term from 2007 to 2012, and then lost in the 2012 election to Socialist francois hollande.
Sarkozy tried to return to the presidential race in 2017 election, but failed to win the center-right voting.
