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More details emerge of witness tampering plot to undermine Sarkozy-Libya funding probe

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In November 2020, Ziad Takieddine, a key witness in the French judicial investigation into the suspected illegal funding of Nicolas Sarkozy's 2007 presidential election campaign by the regime of the late Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi, publicly retracted statements he had previously given to judges in which he confirmed his own role in transporting the cash payments.

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More details emerge of witness tampering plot to undermine Sarkozy-Libya funding probe

An ongoing French judicial investigation into “witness tampering” centres on a secret operation in late 2020 to successfully convince a key witness in the probe into suspected Libyan funding of Nicola Sarkozy’s 2007 presidential election campaign, business intermediary Ziad Takieddine, to publicly retract his statements detailing the illicit funding. Mediapart has gained access to emerging evidence in the witness tampering case, and which throws…

2 years ago·Paris, France

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