The investigations relate to the reasons for the resounding retraction in November 2020 of the main accuser of Nicolas Sarkozy, Ziad Takieddine. The wife of the former head of state, Carla Bruni-Sarkozy, was also interviewed.
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Former President Nicolas Sarkozy was heard on Tuesday, June 13, in a free hearing in Nanterre by financial investigators from the Central Office for the Fight against Corruption and Financial Tax Offenses (Oclciff). His home was also searched in the judicial investigation into the retraction of the accusations of Libyan financing of his 2007 presidential election, made by the Franco-Lebanese intermediary Ziad Takieddine, learned franceinfo from a judicial source.
His wife, Carla Bruni-Sarkozy, was heard as a simple witness, assures this same source to franceinfo. In this case, justice suspects at least eight protagonists of having participated, with the possible endorsement of the former head of state, in an operation for Ziad Takieddine to withdraw his accusations against Nicolas Sarkozy at the end of 2020, with remuneration. at stake.