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Former French President Sentenced to 5 Years in Prison for Criminal Conspiracy

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Former French President Nicolas Sarosi

was sentenced to 5 years in prison on

Thursday after being found guilty of

criminal conspiracy.

The Paris court ruled his close aids

made efforts to procure funds for his

2007 presidential bid from Libya during

the rule of late dictator Muhammad Gaddafi.

Gaddafi.

Zakosi called the decision an injustice

Naturally, I will appeal. I will

probably have to appear handcuffed

>> Those who hate me so much think they are

humiliating me. What they have

humiliated today is France. It is the

>> The former leader will spend time in

jail because of the much harsher than

expected sentence. He was acquitted by

the court of all other charges,

including corruption and receiving

illegal campaign financing.

Sarosi was accused of making a deal with

Gaddafi in 2005 when he was France's

interior minister to obtain campaign

financing in exchange for supporting the

then isolated Libyan government. The

judge said there was no proof Sarosi

made such a deal, but she said Sarosi

was guilty of criminal conspiracy for

having let aids get in touch with Libya

to try and obtain campaign financing.

The 70-year-old has always denied the

charges in a case he said was

politically motivated.

Zakosi has faced several legal battles

since leaving office. Last year,

France's highest court upheld his

conviction for corruption and influence

peddling, ordering him to wear an

electronic tag for a year. Sarosi

remains an influential figure on the

French political stage, meeting with

current Prime Minister Sebastian Leonu,

as well as lending credibility to the

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