Legal woes continued to hound erstwhile French president Nicolas Sarkozy arsenic a tribunal successful the southwestern metropolis of Bordeaux connected Tuesday ruled against his lawyers’ question to propulsion retired a contested aesculapian valuation astatine the heart of a case involving aging L’Oreal heiress Liliane Bettencourt.
Sarkozy’s lawyers had presented respective arguments, notably that 1 of the investigative judges who has spent years gathering up the ineligible dossier was a adjacent person of the tribunal doc who concluded that Bettencourt was senile from September 2006.
Bordeaux judges decided Tuesday to support the aesculapian valuation among the grounds successful what is known successful France arsenic the 'Bettencourt scandal'. Sarkozy, on with a twelve different people, volition frankincense stay nether ceremonial investigation.
Sarkozy had been hooked into the expansive lawsuit implicit alleged irregular run donations by Bettencourt during his palmy 2007 statesmanlike campaign. However, helium has not yet been charged of immoderate wrongdoing, and successful June, judges cleared him of a information of imaginable charges.
The Bettencourt lawsuit was lone 1 of respective ineligible hurdles France’s erstwhile caput of authorities is trying to overcome.
Sarkozy has been named successful alleged corruption cases against arguable French businessman Bernard Tapie, and successful a lawsuit involving kickbacks for income of submarines to Pakistan successful the 1990s, among others.
Observers said the drawstring of judicial troubles could impact his quality to instrumentality to politics.
There has been wide speculation successful France that Sarkozy could effort to reclaim the French presidency successful 2017.
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