Paris’s court found the guilty former President of France Nicolas Sarkozy in illegal financing of his 2012 election campaign.
Nicolas for a new case received 1 year in prison, will serve the term of the house under electronic supervision, RIA Novosti reports. Sarkozy himself did not come to the announcement of the sentence. France’s former president in court represents his lawyer Thierry Erzog.
court hearings on this case were held from May 20 to June 22. Sarkozy came to them only once for the testimony.
Paris Court considered in the media, the media was called bygmalion – named PR Agency, which was engaged in information support for the 2012 election campaign of Sarkozy. According to the prosecution, the polling staff policy used fake accounts for meeting agency organized to hide the excess of the presidential campaign.
Under this case, charges were charged with 14 persons, Sarkozy – in illegal financing of the election campaign. Ex-president of France himself declared his innocence, refuting the excess of expenses during this campaign.
Previously, the prosecutor’s office demanded to sentence Sarkozy to six months in prison. In addition, the prosecution began to appoint him another six months of conditional imprisonment and a fine of 3,750 euros.