End of the Balladur-Léotard trial in the Karachi case, the decision rendered on March 4

The Court of Justice of the Republic will render its decision on March 4 in the trial of former Prime Minister Édouard Balladur, tried since January 19 for suspicion of secret financing of his 1995 presidential campaign, one of the components of the Karachi case. The prosecution requested against Édouard Balladur a year of suspended imprisonment and a 50,000 euros fine for "complicity" and "concealment" of abuse of corporate assets. A two-year suspended prison sentence and 100,000 euros fine was requested against his former Minister of Defense François Léotard for "complicity", more than twenty-five years after the facts.