Claude Gueant was taken into custody Friday, March 6 in the morning in the investigation into the Libyan accusations of financing the presidential campaign of Nicolas Sarkozy in 2007, told AFP several sources, confirming a Information lexpress.fr.
investigating judges of the Paris financial center query in particular the discovery in 2013 of a transfer of € 500,000 to the account of the former Minister of Interior and was for 10 years the right hand of Nicolas Sarkozy.
Mr. Gueant had justified this transfer by sale to a Malaysian lawyer two tables of a Flemish painter of the seventeenth, Andries van Eertvelt. But experts have questioned the value of these works.
The former minister, who was formerly secretary general of the Elysee, was taken into custody early Friday, said sources close to the judiciary and the file.
The accusations of a Libyan finance Nicolas Sarkozy’s 2007 campaign had emerged between the two rounds of the presidential campaign of 2012, when Mediapart published a document suggesting a chord Libya’s Muammar Gaddafi to fund Mr Sarkozy, the latter of which provides that it is a fake.
A judicial inquiry was opened in April 2013, including for “corruption and bribery” and “influence peddling” to the charges, and entrusted to judges Serge Tournaire and René Grouman.
This is the third time Mr. Gueant, formerly the boss of all the fonts in France is placed in custody.
He had been the first time in late 2013 in the case of cash bonuses when he headed the office of Mr Sarkozy when the latter was Minister of inside. In this case, the national financial prosecutor (PNF) will soon decide on a possible return to corrections on the opening of a criminal investigation or the dismissal of the case.
Mr. Gueant had also been taken into custody in May 2014 in the case of arbitration Tapie / CL. He had not been presented to the magistrates.
(With AFP)
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