This figure was carried out as part of the judicial investigation into suspicions of payments to Ziad Takieddine, with the possible approval of Nicolas Sarkozy, so that he withdraws his accusations against the former head of the French state.
The Franco-Lebanese, who accused the latter since 2012, had made a spectacular about-face in November 2020 on BFMTV and Paris Match by declaring that Nicolas Sarkozy had in fact not benefited from funding from Muammar Gaddafi, before going back on his remarks two months later.
In this part of the case, nine people are charged with witness tampering, criminal association or organized fraud.
The money, mainly mobilized by the financier Pierre Reynaud, was paid to various alleged protagonists of the operation, including the intermediary Noël Dubus, already convicted of fraud, an advertiser, Ziad Takieddine and a Lebanese close to the latter.
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