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Sarkozy seeks to merge two separate six-month sentences from graft-related convictions by counting time served under electronic monitoring, pending legal criteria and appeals.
- A Paris criminal court will review former French president Nicolas Sarkozy's request to merge two sentences for convictions related to graft and illegal campaign financing.
- Sarkozy was convicted and sentenced in the 'Bismuth' case over trying to extract favors from a judge and served time with an electronic ankle tag.
- Sarkozy received another final conviction in the 'Bygmalion' case over illegal financing of his failed 2012 re-election bid and will ask to consider the previous ankle tag time as serving that sentence.
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The former president asked the Paris Correctional Court that his conviction in the Bygmalion case be considered purged, after having already worn an electronic bracelet in the Bismuth case. The...
The Paris Correctional Court examined Monday, February 23, in camera, the request of former French president Nicolas Sarkozy for confusion of his two final sentences in the Bismuth (corruption and influence trafficking) and Bygmalion (illegal campaign financing) cases. The decision will be rendered on March 9, according to a source close to the case file.
The former President of the Republic has requested that his sentence of six months' imprisonment be closed but convertible into the Bygmalion file, as a result of his wearing an electronic bracelet last year for the Bismuth case.
A criminal court in Paris examines yesterday's former President Nicolas Sarkozy's request to combine the sentences pronounced in separate sentences for corruption and illegal financing of the electoral campaign. Sarkozy, who has taken over the role of...
The former Head of State pleads this Monday before the Paris court the confusion of sentences in the Bismuth and Bygmalion cases, in order to avoid once again wearing an electronic bracelet.
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