Court rejects Sarkozy bid and trial set
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Former French President Nicolas Sarkozy will stand trial for influence peddling after the country鈥檚 highest court rejected his final bid to have the case thrown out.
Sarkozy is accused of offering to help a judge win promotion in return for leaked information about a separate inquiry.
The case came about after investigators used phone-taps to examine allegations that late Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi funded Sarkozy鈥檚 successful presidential campaign in 2007.
Investigators began to suspect Sarkozy had offered the judge promotion in return for information on another investigation involving illicit payments from L鈥橭real heiress Liliane Bettencourt for the same campaign. He was cleared over the Bettencourt allegations.
Sarkozy鈥檚 lawyers previously argued that magistrates investigating the alleged secret Libyan funding exceeded their powers and went on a 鈥渇ishing expedition鈥 by tapping his conversations, breaching lawyer-client privilege.
His defence team said the use in this case of wiretapped remarks gleaned in relation to a different investigation contravened a European Court of Human Rights ruling.
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