Gilbert Azibert: Last News

reports.The 66-year-old was found guilty of corruption at a Paris court.Prosecutors sought a four-year jail sentence but he was ordered to serve a year in jail.This is the first time in France's modern history that a former president has gone on trial for corruption and is the first time a former French President in recent history has been given actual jail time.Mr Sarkozy, who was President between 2007 and 2012, intends to appeal the sentence.He denied any wrongdoing and claimed he had been "dragged through the mud" for six years and had "never committed the slightest act of corruption."However, a court in Paris ruled otherwise as it found he had offered a post in Monaco to judge Gilbert Azibert in return for information on another

Elsa Keslassy International CorrespondentFrance’s former president, Nicolas Sarkozy, was on Monday sentenced by the Paris judicial court to a three-year jail term after being found guilty of corruption and influence peddling in a case dating back to 2014, according to French news channel BFMTV.The three-year sentence includes just one year of imprisonment — two years have been suspended. He can serve the term at home.

Nicolas Sarkozy, who served as French president between 2007 and 2012, has been found guilty of corruption.