Former French President Nicolas Sarkozy received the status of an accused. He was taken under judicial control

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Ex-president of France & Nicolas Sarkozy is accused of "passive corruption, illegal financing of the election campaign and harboring funds stolen from the (Libyan) budget," according to France 2. He is ordered to be under judicial control.

It is clarified that judicial control & - restriction on & movement and & the obligation to regularly (usually & once a week) “report” to the police.

Earlier, investigators completed the interrogation of Sarkozy and released him from custody. After that, according to TF1 , he appeared before two judges, who eventually determined his procedural status.

On the morning of March 20, Sarkozy was detained in a police building located in the Parisian suburb of Nanterre, where the ex-president arrived at the call of investigators from the National Bureau for Combating Corruption, Financial and Tax Crimes. The reason for the detention was the receipt of new information in the so-called "Libyan financing case" of Sarkozy's 2007 election campaign. On the first day, Sarkozy was kept under arrest from eight in the morning until midnight, but was allowed to go home for the night. On the second day, Sarkozy returned to the investigators at eight in the morning, who interrogated him until seven in the evening.

In total, Sarkozy's detention lasted 25 hours.

Recall that in 2012 the well-known French website Mediapart first wrote about the "case of Libyan financing". The site published information that in 2006-2007 Gaddafi "undertook" to finance the election campaign of Nicolas Sarkozy for 50 million euros. Later, other evidence of "Libyan money" began to appear in the French media.

French investigators began investigating the case in 2013. In March 2015, Claude Gean, one of Sarkozy's powerful close associates, received the status of the accused. Gehan was both Sarkozy's chief of staff and French interior minister (2011–2012). Prosecution witnesses (from the Libyan side) claim that they transferred millions of euros in cash from Muammar Gaddafi “for Sarkozy” through him. Both Ghean and Sarkozy deny all accusations.

Gean was not summoned for interrogations now, and together with Sarkozy, investigators on March 20 interrogated another of his close associates and, concurrently, another former Interior Minister Bris Ortefe, who eventually left the interrogation in the status of a “free suspect”. This is due to the fact that Ortefe, as a member of the European Parliament, has “immunity”. Sarkozy has no special legal status.