A court sentenced former French President Nicolas Sarkozy to five years in prison over a scheme for late Libyan dictator Moamer Kadhafi to fund his 2007 presidential run. In a verdict that will make the former president the first French postwar leader to serve jail time, the Paris criminal court convicted Sarkozy, 70, on criminal conspiracy charges. However, it acquitted the former head of state, France's president from 2007 to 2012, of corruption and personally accepting illegal campaign financing. The court ordered that Sarkozy should be placed in custody at a later date, with prosecutors to inform him on Oct....
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