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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The former President of the Republic Nicolas Sarkozy was heard, Tuesday, June 13, in free hearing in Nanterre by the financial investigators of the Central Office for the fight against corruption and financial tax offenses (Oclciff). His home was also searched as part of the investigation into the retraction of accusations of Libyan financing of his 2007 presidential campaign, 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.