Mr Sarkozy has been under investigation in the Libya case since 2013.
Investigators examined claims that Gaddafi’s government secretly gave Mr Sarkozy 50 million euros for his winning 2007 campaign.
The investigation gained traction when French-Lebanese businessman Ziad Takieddine told news site Mediapart in 2016 that he had delivered suitcases from Libya containing five million euros in cash to Mr Sarkozy and his former chief of staff.After becoming president in 2007, Mr Sarkozy welcomed Gaddafi to France with high honours later that year. Mr Sarkozy then put France at the forefront of Nato-led airstrikes that helped rebel fighters topple Gaddafi’s government in 2011.
He also was found guilty of corruption and influence peddling in another case and sentenced to a year of house arrest in an appeals trial in May this year. He took the case to France’s highest court, which suspended the sentence.
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