France’s ex-president Nicolas Sarkozy was on Monday found guilty of corruption and influence-peddling and sentenced jail for three years jail term.
Sarkozy, 66, is moreover permitted to request that his prison term of which two years are suspended ,be served at home with an electronic bracelet.
He is the first ex-french leader to be giving a prison sentence that includes time with no cancellation. His forerunner at the Elysée Palace, Jacques Chirac, had been rendered a two-year suspended jail term after being found guilty of corruption while Paris Mayor.
Attorneys had pleaded two years of prison and a two-year suspended sentence for all three defendants over what they said was a “corruption pact.”
“No pact has ever existed,” Sarkozy told the court. “Neither in my head nor in reality.” “I want to be cleared of that infamy,” he added.