Former French President Nicolas Sarkozy To Face Trial For Corruption And Influence Peddling

Daily Mail: Former French President Sarkozy is ordered to stand trial for 'attempting to influence a JUDGE' during probe into claims he took illicit payments from L'Oreal heiress for his election campaign

* Nicolas Sarkozy allegedly tried to get details of probe into campaign financing
* He was suspected of accepting money from L'Oreal heiress Liliane Bettencourt
* French media claims he tried to use informants to get intel on the investigation
* He has already been charged over claims Libyan dictator financed his campaign
* Sarkozy was charged with bribery and receiving £4.35m of Libyan public funds

Former French president Nicolas Sarkozy has been ordered to stand trial for corruption and influence peddling involving a judge, from whom he tried to get information about an investigation, a legal source said Thursday.

According to prosecutors, Sarkozy's lawyer tried to get information from judge Gilbert Azibert over the status of a campaign financing investigation.

In that inquiry, Sarkozy was suspected of accepting illicit payments from the L'Oreal heiress Liliane Bettencourt for his 2007 presidential campaign.

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