Muammar Gaddafi’s interpreter has said Libya did donate funds
to Nicolas Sarkozy’s 2007 presidential campaign in France – an
allegation the former French leader denies.
Moftah Missouri said Gaddafi had told him personally that $20m (£13m; 15m euros) were given to the campaign.
Saif al-Islam was the first person to make the allegations against Sarkozy during the NATO bombings in 2011.
In 2012, Missouri was quoted by a French newspaper claiming he was unaware of the payments. Le Fi
The allegations against Mr Sarkozy, first made by one of Gaddafi’s sons, are already being investigated. Le Figaro, a conservative daily, interviewed the former interpreter when he visited Paris in April 2012.
In the new interview, Mr Missouri said: “Gaddafi himself told me personally, verbally, that Libya had transferred about $20m.”
He was speaking in a video clip posted by France’s Mediapart news website, with the full interview due to air on French public TV later on Thursday.
Sarkozy, who met Gaddafi in Paris in 2007, has always denied wrongdoing and has pointed out that he was the chief advocate of a NATO-led military campaign that resulted in Gaddafi’s overthrow and killing at the hands of rebel forces in 2011.
The funding of Sarkozy’s successful 2007 election campaign is already being examined as part of another inquiry into ties between his center-right UMP party and France’s richest woman, Liliane Bettencourt, heiress of the L’Oreal cosmetics empire.
He has previously hinted that he may consider another run for the presidency in 2017, but the outcome of these investigations could determine whether he will make a return to politics, observers say.
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Moftah Missouri said Gaddafi had told him personally that $20m (£13m; 15m euros) were given to the campaign.
Saif al-Islam was the first person to make the allegations against Sarkozy during the NATO bombings in 2011.
In 2012, Missouri was quoted by a French newspaper claiming he was unaware of the payments. Le Fi
The allegations against Mr Sarkozy, first made by one of Gaddafi’s sons, are already being investigated. Le Figaro, a conservative daily, interviewed the former interpreter when he visited Paris in April 2012.
In the new interview, Mr Missouri said: “Gaddafi himself told me personally, verbally, that Libya had transferred about $20m.”
He was speaking in a video clip posted by France’s Mediapart news website, with the full interview due to air on French public TV later on Thursday.
Sarkozy, who met Gaddafi in Paris in 2007, has always denied wrongdoing and has pointed out that he was the chief advocate of a NATO-led military campaign that resulted in Gaddafi’s overthrow and killing at the hands of rebel forces in 2011.
The funding of Sarkozy’s successful 2007 election campaign is already being examined as part of another inquiry into ties between his center-right UMP party and France’s richest woman, Liliane Bettencourt, heiress of the L’Oreal cosmetics empire.
He has previously hinted that he may consider another run for the presidency in 2017, but the outcome of these investigations could determine whether he will make a return to politics, observers say.
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