The Court of Appeal of Paris has validated Thursday tracks worth of Nicolas Sarkozy an indictment for corruption and influence peddling, according to Paul-Albert Iweins, one of the defense lawyers.
A major barrier for 2017
Frost since the fall time to consider the requests, the investigation will therefore resume. Me Iweins announced an appeal but did not suspend, according to a judicial source. A major obstacle for president in 2017.
For the one who has again become the leader of the opposition and which is suspected of having particular, their lawyer considered bribe a senior judge for information covered by professional secrecy, the threat, at operation, a possible referral Correctional persists.
“Contrary to what we could legitimately expect, the court did not grant most of our nullity means, with one exception” , said Mr Paul-Albert Iweins at the exit of the chamber of the appeal court instruction.
According to a source close to the matter, this is incidental in this survey in which the president of the UMP is suspected of having, with his lawyer, sought unduly to a senior judge of the Court of Cassation, Gilbert Azibert, information covered by the secrecy in the investigation of the Liliane Bettencourt.
Corruption, Bribery and concealment
This folder earned Nicolas Sarkozy to be the first former head of state in history placed in custody. He is indicted for “active corruption” , “active trading in influence” and “violation of professional secrecy concealment” and remains therefore under the threat of a misdemeanor on trial at the end of the statement.
Nicolas Sarkozy had been indicted in the case Bettencourt, before receiving a dismissed.
In exchange for the desired information, Nicolas Sarkozy would have promised to intervene so that Gilbert Azibert obtain a prestigious position at Monaco. In the end, the former president has not been successful or Gilbert Azibert the coveted post.
The tracks between Nicolas Sarkozy and Me Thierry Herzog are central the file.
The exchanges between Nicolas Sarkozy and his lawyer “do not raise questions about their willingness and their expectations” , an estimated source close to the investigation.
Va “scheming with Sarkozy”
“I am doing up! “, he said, and February 5, 2014 to Mr. Thierry Herzog about Gilbert Azibert. “I’ll help” , he insists, speaking from a laptop provided by his lawyer and endorsed the alias of Paul Bismuth.
The judges have other plays, such as those of Gilbert Azibert who has been roundly criticized by his wife to be “Sarkozy went fiddle with” .
Gilbert Azibert has since left the bench. A conversation between Mr. Herzog and the magistrate is also disturbing: the first explains that the second “the approach was made in Monaco” . “Yeah, well that’s nice” , replied Gilbert Azibert.
Me and Gilbert Herzog Azibert are also under investigation.
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