Carla Bruni-Sarkozy is facing a witness tampering charge in the campaign finance against her husband, the former French president Nicolas Sarkozy.
Ms Bruni-Sarkozy, a French-Italian former supermodel, is also accused of attempting to commit fraud by deceiving investigators looking into her husband, who is suspected of receiving illegal funds during his presidential election campaign in 2007.Sarkozy, who was president between 2007 and 2012, has already been convicted on two other charges, but has denied any wrongdoing.Bruni-Sarkozy has provided "useful clarifications and explanations" to the police, her lawyer said.
The witness Bruni-Sarkozy is accused of pressuring is Ziad Takieddine, who is linked to the accusations against Sarkozy that he received millions in illegal funding from then-Libyan president Muammar Gaddafi during the 2007 campaign.He made a statement that he then retracted, and investigators suspect that this was the result of a payment.
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