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		</div><p>France’s highest court has upheld an appeal court decision which found former president Nicolas Sarkozy guilty of corruption and influence peddling.</p>
<p>Sarkozy, 69, faces a year in prison, but is expected to ask to be detained at home with an electronic bracelet — as is the case for any sentence of two years or less.</p>
<p>He was found guilty of corruption and influence peddling by both a Paris court in 2021 and an appeals court in 2023 for trying to bribe a magistrate in exchange for information about a legal case in which he was implicated.</p>
<figure id="attachment_185141" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-185141" style="width: 640px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><img src="https://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/IMG_7237.webp" alt="" width="640" height="427" class="size-full wp-image-185141" /><figcaption id="caption-attachment-185141" class="wp-caption-text">Nicolas Sarkozy arrives at the courtroom for his appeal trial of trying to bribe a magistrate in exchange for information about a legal case in which he was implicated</figcaption></figure>
<p>“The convictions and sentences are therefore final,” a Court of Cassation statement on Wednesday said.</p>
<p>Sarkozy, who was France’s president from 2007 to 2012, retired from public life in 2017 but still plays an influential role in French conservative politics.</p>
<p>He was among the guests who attended the reopening of Notre Dame Cathedral earlier this month.</p>
<p>It is the first time in France’s modern history that a former president has been convicted and sentenced to a prison term for actions during his term.</p>
<p>Sarkozy’s predecessor, Jacques Chirac, was found guilty in 2011 of misuse of public money during his time as Paris mayor and was given a two-year suspended prison sentence.</p>
<p>Sarkozy has been involved in several other legal cases. He has denied any wrongdoing.</p>
<p>He faces another trial next month in Paris over accusations he took millions of dollars from then-Libyan dictator Moammar Gadhafi to illegally finance his successful 2007 campaign.</p>
<p>The corruption case that led to Wednesday’s ruling focused on phone conversations that took place in February 2014.</p>
<figure id="attachment_185143" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-185143" style="width: 640px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><img src="https://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/IMG_7239.webp" alt="" width="640" height="426" class="size-full wp-image-185143" /><figcaption id="caption-attachment-185143" class="wp-caption-text">Nicolas Sarkozy reacts to supporters as he arrives on stage at Trocadero square in 2012</figcaption></figure>
<p>At the time, investigative judges had launched an inquiry into the financing of Sarkozy’s 2007 presidential campaign.</p>
<p>During the inquiry, they discovered that Sarkozy and his lawyer Thierry Herzog were communicating via secret mobile phones registered to the alias “Paul Bismuth”.</p>
<p>Wiretapped conversations on those phones led prosecutors to suspect Sarkozy and Herzog of promising magistrate Gilbert Azibert a job in Monaco in exchange for leaking information about another legal case involving Sarkozy.</p>
<p>Azibert never got the post and legal proceedings against Sarkozy have been dropped in the case he was seeking information about.</p>
<p>Prosecutors had concluded, however, that the proposal still constitutes corruption under French law, even if the promise was not fulfilled.</p>
<p>Sarkozy vigorously denied any malicious intention in his offer to help Azibert.</p>
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