In a significant move for the French legal system, former President Nicolas Sarkozy has been sentenced to five years in prison for corruption, marking a first in the history of the French Fifth ...

At a time when many people across the globe holding high offices or having money power and political clout are continuing to evade the laws despite their wrongdoings – economic or political-, it does ...

Ex-president of France Nicolas Sarkozy added that he did not understand the cause of applying the sentence without the deferral before the appeal review ...

Former French President Nicolas Sarkozy was sentenced Thursday to five years in prison for criminal conspiracy. Acquitted of the corruption allegations, the Correctional Tribunal of Paris found ...

Former French President Nicolas Sarkozy has been found guilty of criminal conspiracy for accepting illicit funds from Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi to finance his 2007 presidential campaign. The ...

The Paris Criminal Court found the former French president guilty in the case of suspected financing of his 2007 campaign by Muammar Gaddafi.

The grubby backroom deals and "bling bling" reputation that many French people have come to associate with Nicolas Sarkozy during his 2007-2012 presidency came back to haunt him on Thursday, as he ...

Shady backroom deals and high-profile corruption are what many French people associate with former President Nicolas Sarkozy.

Sarkozy has been sentenced to five years in prison after a Paris court found him guilty of criminal conspiracy linked to alleged Libyan funding.

Former French President Nicolas Sarkozy will be imprisoned. This decision illustrates the growing independence of the judiciary and the application of the principle of equality before the law.

Nicolas Sarkozy has been jailed for five years for conspiring to finance his 2007 presidential campaign using funds from Muammar Gaddafi, the late Libyan dictator.

A court in Paris has sentenced Nicolas Sarkozy, the former French president, to five years in prison after finding him guilty of criminal conspiracy. The trial examined accusations that Muammar ...