Bygmalion case: the Supreme Court rejects Sarkozy’s enchantment, giving him a ultimate sentence of 1 yr | EUROtoday

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The French Court of Cassation rejected the enchantment lodged by former president Nicolas Sarkozy in caso Bygmalionfor which he was sentenced on 14 February 2024 by the Paris Court of Appeal to at least one yr in jail, together with six months of obligatory imprisonment, for the unlawful financing of his 2012 presidential marketing campaign. This is the second definitive prison conviction for the previous president after that of the Bismuth file on wiretapping.

In its ruling, the Court of Cassation defined “that the illicit financing of an electoral campaign was established”. “In fact, the candidate personally gave consent to his staff to support the campaign expenses on his behalf, despite knowing that such expenses would result in exceeding the limit established by law,” the ruling added. The broadcaster Bfmtv experiences it.

The investigations revealed that, to cover the exaggerated bills of his electoral marketing campaign (virtually 43 million euros in comparison with a most quantity allowed by regulation of twenty-two.5 million), a double billing system had been put in place, attributing a big a part of the price of the conferences to the Union for the Popular Movement (UMP) social gathering, which later turned LR, beneath the duvet of fictitious agreements with the occasions firm Bygmalion.