Judged on appeal on exceeding the expenses of his 2012 presidential campaign, the former French president, Nicolas Sarkozy, was sentenced to one year in prison, including 6 months suspended.
Former French president Nicolas Sarkozy was sentenced in September 2021 to one year in prison in the Bygmalion affair relating to illegal funding from his 2012 campaign.
During this appeal trial for the Bygmalion case, Nicolas Sarkozy was sentenced this Wednesday, February 14, 2024 on Wednesday, 2024 by the Paris Court of Appeal to a sentence of one year in prison, six months suspended. And if the part of the firm sentence will be fitted out, the former French president announced that he was going to appeal to the cassation.
Condemned for “illegal funding for electoral campaign”, Nicolas Sarkozy thus sees his lightened sentence to that pronounced at first instance in September 2021.
The Bygmalion case relates to a double billing system set up by the presidential party, the UMP, and the communication company aimed at hiding the explosion of the expenditure ceiling authorized by law.
Set at 22.5 million by the Campaign Accounts Commission, Nicolas Sarkozy’s presidential campaign expenses in 2012 reached the sum of almost 43 million euros.
This is the second conviction for the former French president. In May 2023, the former Elysée tenant was found guilty of corruption and influence traffic in the case of “listening”. He had been sentenced to three years in prison, including a firm year.
