Paris: A French website, Mediapart, sued former President Nicolas Sarkozy after he filed a lawsuit against it, saying the website had accused him of financial corruption, according to Press TV.
The website had provided documents giving evidence that slain Libyan dictator, Muammar Gaddafi, had agreed providing $66 million to Sarkozy for his 2007 election campaign. Sarkozy then dismissed the allegations by the left-wing website terming it as “crude forgery”.
“The independence of the judiciary and its financial means to fight financial corruption has degraded in the past five years. During these years, the government never, not even once, tried to fight financial scams. It was not its priority at all,” Transparency International France’s Daniel Lebegue said.
Former French Budget Minister Eric Woerth was forced to resign last year after it was revealed that he had close links to L’Oreal billionaire Liliane Bettencourt.
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