Nicolas Sarkozy: French ex-president under formal investigation

Previous French President Nicolas Sarkozy has been put under formal examination over charges he got crusade financing from late Libyan pioneer Muammar Gaddafi. 

He is being explored for unlawful crusade financing, misappropriation of Libyan open assets and uninvolved debasement. 

He was discharged on Wednesday following two days of addressing over the financing of his 2007 crusade. 

Mr Sarkozy, 63, has denied bad behavior. 

He says his Libyan informers are looking for retribution for his choice to send French warplanes amid the uprising which toppled Gaddafi in 2011. 

The inside right legislator bombed in his offer to come back to control in 2012, losing to communist François Hollande. 

In 2013, France opened an examination concerning claims that Mr Sarkozy's battle had profited from a great many euros of illegal assets from Gaddafi. 

One of Mr Sarkozy's previous pastors and a nearby partner, Brice Hortefeux, was additionally allegedly addressed by police on Tuesday. 

A previous associate, Alexandre Djouhri, is battling removal to France in the wake of being captured in London in January on doubt of tax evasion as a feature of the case. 

The Swiss businessperson has denied the charge and says the examination is politically spurred, as indicated by Reuters news office. 

The cases about financing from Gaddafi originated from a French-Lebanese businessperson, Ziad Takieddine, and some previous Gaddafi administration authorities. 

Mr Sarkozy was confined in 2014 of every a different examination concerning affirmed crusade subsidizing manhandle - the first run through this has happened to a French ex-president.